
Article 1 
The first paragraph of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1915/83 is replaced by the following:
'The liaison agency shall forward to the Commission all the farm returns presented in the form laid down in Annex III to Regulation (EEC) No 2237/77.For the accounting year 2004 the farm returns shall be forwarded not later than 13 months after the end of that accounting year. However, the liaison agency in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia shall forward the farm returns not later than 18 months after the end of that accounting year.From the 2005 accounting year onwards the farm returns shall be forwarded not later than 12 months after the end of the accounting year in question.'
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, 25 July 2005.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission