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the following articles are inserted: ‘Article 5a 1. Each Member State shall draw up a plan for the selection of returning holdings that ensures a representative accounting sample of the field of survey. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 19a, laying down the rules by which Member States are to draw up such plans. Such rules shall ensure that plans for the selection of returning holdings: — are drawn up on the basis of the most recent statistical data, — are presented in accordance with the Union typology for agricultural holdings, and — specify, in particular, the distribution of returning holdings per category of holding and the detailed rules for their selection. 2. In accordance with the rules adopted in accordance with paragraph 1, and on the basis of the data received from Member States, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts fixing the number of returning holdings per Member State and per FADN division. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19b(2). 3. The number of returning holdings to be selected per FADN division may differ from the number laid down in the implementing acts to be adopted pursuant to paragraph 2 by a maximum of 20 % in either direction, provided that the total number of the returning holdings of the Member State concerned is respected. 4. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing and updating models and methods relating to the form and content of the data to be notified to the Commission by Member States. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19b(2). Article 5b 1. Agricultural holdings shall be classified in a uniform manner according to the Union typology for agricultural holdings (“the typology”), depending on their type of farming, their economic size and the importance of other gainful activities directly related to them. The typology shall be used in particular for the presentation, by type of farming and by economic size class, of data collected through the Union farm structure surveys and the FADN. 2. The type of farming of a holding shall be determined by the relative contribution of the standard output of the different characteristics of that holding to the total standard output of the holding. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 19a, fixing the reference period for the standard output. 3. Holdings shall be classified by a limited number of types of farming. General types of farming shall be specified. Depending on the amount of detail required, the general types of farming shall be divided into principal types of farming. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 19a, concerning the determination of the general and principal types of farming. The correspondence between general and principal types of farming and particular types of farming specialisations corresponding to principal types of farming shall be specified. 4. The economic size of the holding shall be determined on the basis of the total standard output of the holding. 5. The importance of the gainful activities directly related to the holding other than the agricultural activities of the holding shall be determined on the basis of the contribution of those gainful activities to the output of the holding. 6. The standard outputs and the data for their determination shall be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) by the liaison agency designated by each Member State in accordance with Article 7 or by the body to which that function has been delegated. 7. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down: — methods for the calculation of particular types of farming specialisations referred to in paragraph 3 and for assigning the holding to a principal type of farming, — the method for the calculation of the economic size of the holding, — economic size classes for the holdings, referred to in paragraph 1, — methods for the calculation of the output of the holding, and for estimating the contribution of other gainful activities to that output, for the purposes of paragraph 5, — the method for the calculation to determine the standard outputs of each characteristic referred in paragraph 2, the procedures for collecting the corresponding data and the means of, and deadlines for, the transmission of the standard outputs to the Commission, in accordance with paragraph 6. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19b(2).’;