Commission Regulation (EC) No 1388/2004 of 30 July 2004 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1915/83 on certain detailed implementing rules concerning the keeping of accounts for the purpose of determining the incomes of agricultural holdings
Date: 2004-07-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: farm accountancy data network, farm income, farm return, financial year

31.7.2004

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1388/2004

of 30 July 2004

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1915/83 on certain detailed implementing rules concerning the
keeping of accounts for the purpose of determining the incomes of agricultural holdings

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

in order to respect the new definition of the moment at
which the farm returns can be considered to have been
forwarded to the Commission.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

(3)

Regulation (EEC) No 1915/83 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

Having regard to Regulation No 79/65/EEC of
the Council
of 15 June 1965 setting up a network for the collection
of accountancy data on the incomes and business operation
Economic
in
of
Community (1), and in particular Article 6(2) thereof,

agricultural

European

holdings

the

(4)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Community
Committee for the Farm Accountancy Data Network,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

Pursuant to Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 1915/83 (2), the liaison agency forwards the farm
returns to the Commission according to the technical
specifications laid down in Annex III of Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 2237/77 of 23 September 1977
on the form of farm return to be used for the purpose
of determining incomes of agricultural holdings (3). For
reasons of clarity, it is appropriate to define the moment
at which the farm returns can be considered to have been
forwarded to the Commission taking into account the
development in those technical specifications.

Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1915/83 is replaced by the
following:

‘Article 3

forward all

the farm returns,
The liaison agency shall
presented in the form laid down in Annex III to Regulation
(EEC) No 2237/77, to the Commission not later than nine
months after the end of the accounting year to which they
for the accounting year 2003 the farm
relate. However,
later
returns shall be forwarded to the Commission not
than fourteen months after the end of that accounting year.

Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1915/83 provides
forward all
furthermore that
the liaison agency shall
the farm returns to the Commission not
later than
nine months after the end of the accounting year to
is appropriate to prolong this
which they relate.
period for
to give the
the accounting year 2003,
liaison agencies time to adjust their work organisation

It

The farm returns shall be regarded as having been forwarded
to the Commission when the liaison agency, after the data
have been introduced in the Commission’s data delivery and
control system and after the subsequent computer checks
have been executed, confirms the data to be ready to be
loaded in the Commission’s database.’

(1) OJ 109, 23.6.1965, p. 1859/65. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 660/2004 (OJ L 104, 8.4.2003,
p. 97).

Article 2

(2) OJ L 190, 14.7.1983, p. 25.
(3) OJ L 263, 17.10.1977, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
L 255,

(EC) No 1837/2001 (OJ

Commission Regulation
24.9.2001, p. 1).

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
following that of its publication in the Official
Journal of the
European Union.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 30 July 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission