
Article 1 
Article 5(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1915/83 is replaced by the following:
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1. The Commission shall pay a standard fee to the Member States in respect of each duly completed farm return forwarded to it within the period referred to in Article 3.
1a. The total number per Member State of duly completed and forwarded farm returns that is eligible for the standard fee shall not be more than the total number of returning holdings laid down for that Member State in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82.For Member States having more than one division, the number of duly completed and forwarded farm returns per division that is eligible for the standard fee may be up to 20 % higher than the number laid down for the division concerned, provided that the total number of duly completed and forwarded farm returns of the Member State concerned shall not be higher than the total number laid down for that Member State in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82.If the number of duly completed and forwarded farm returns in respect of a division or a Member State is less than 80 % of the number of returning holdings laid down for that division or for the Member State concerned, the standard fee for the farm returns from that division or from the Member State concerned shall be reduced by:
— 10 % in the accounting years 2005 and 2006,
— 20 % in the 2007 accounting year and the subsequent accounting years.If there is a shortfall for both a division and the Member State concerned, the reduction shall be applied only at national level.The reduction in respect of the accounting year 2005 provided for in the first indent of the third subparagraph shall not apply to the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia'.
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.
It shall apply from the 2005 accounting year.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 21 December 2004.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission