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Articles 7, 8 and 9 are replaced by the following: ‘Article 7 1. By 31 July of each year, Member States shall send the Commission a statement of the total amount of the base for the VAT-based own resource for the previous calendar year, determined in accordance with Article 3, to which the uniform call rate referred to in Article 1 is to be applied. 2. The statement referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall contain all the data used to determine the base that are required for the inspections referred to in Article 2(4) of Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2021/768 (*4). 3. The data used to determine the base for the VAT-based own resource shall be the most recent data available when the statement is produced. 4. Member States may request an extension of the time limit referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article if exceptional circumstances beyond their control make it impossible to perform the calculations in accordance with Article 3 and therefore to adhere to that time limit. Such a request shall be made to the Commission in writing and shall set out the reasons for the exceptional circumstances. 5. The Commission, after examining the request referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article, may grant a single extension of the time limit referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article for a maximum of two months. The Commission shall report the number of requests and its corresponding decisions to the committee referred to in Article 13(1) on an annual basis. Article 8 By 15 April of each year, for budgetary purposes, Member States shall send to the Commission an estimate of the base for the VAT-based own resource for the following financial year. Article 9 1. Any corrections to the statements referred to in Article 7(1) of this Regulation for previous financial years, for whatever reason, shall be made in agreement between the Commission and the Member State concerned. If the Member State concerned and the Commission do not agree on a correction, the Commission shall inform that Member State in a letter about the necessary correction. That letter shall constitute “measures” as referred to in point (c) of Article 12(2) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 609/2014. 1a. The Member State concerned may request the Commission to review the correction communicated in the letter referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 of this Article within two months from the day of the receipt of that letter. The review shall be concluded with a decision to be adopted by the Commission at the latest three months from the day of receipt of the Member State’s request. Where the Commission’s decision reviews the amounts in full or partially corresponding to the correction communicated in the letter referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 of this Article, the Member State shall make available the corresponding amount. Neither the Member State’s request to review the correction nor an action for annulment against the Commission’s decision shall affect the Member State’s obligation to make available the amount corresponding to the correction. All corrections to the statements referred to in Article 7(1) shall be incorporated in aggregate statements, which shall amend the previous statements for the financial years concerned. 1b. The Commission may adopt implementing acts further specifying the procedure for the review referred to in paragraph 1a. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 13(3). 2. No further corrections shall be made to the statements referred to in Article 7(1) after 31 July of the fourth year following the financial year concerned, unless those corrections concern points previously notified either by the Commission or by the Member State concerned. (*4) Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2021/768 of 30 April 2021 laying down implementing measures for the system of own resources of the European Union and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 608/2014 (OJ L 165, .........., p. 1).’;"