
Article 1 
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/220 is amended as follows:

((1)) in Article 12, the following paragraph is added:
'However, farm returns from a FADN division with a higher number of submitted farm returns than laid down for that FADN division in Annex II shall not be considered as eligible for the payment of the standard fee in a FADN division for which less than 80 % of the required number of returning holdings is submitted by the Member State.';
((2)) in Article 14, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:
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4. To the increase of the standard fee under points (a) and (b) of paragraph 3 may be added EUR 2 for the accounting year 2018 and EUR 5 from the accounting year 2019 where the accountancy data has been verified by the Commission in accordance with point (b) of the first paragraph of Article 13 of this Regulation and is deemed duly completed in accordance with Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009, either at the moment of its submission to the Commission, or within 40 working days from the date on which the Commission informed the submitting Member State that the submitted accountancy data is not duly completed.In exceptional and duly justified cases, the Commission may decide to extend that period of 40 working days.The end date of the period of 40 working days, or of any extension thereof, shall be confirmed in writing between the Commission and the liaison agency of the Member State concerned.'.
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 accounting year 2018.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 20 November 2018.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER