
Article 1 
Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1915/83 is replaced by the following:
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Article 3 
The liaison agency shall forward all the farm returns, 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 relate. However, for the accounting year 2003 the farm returns shall be forwarded to the Commission not later than fourteen months after the end of that accounting year.
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.'
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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