
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 1433/2003 is hereby amended as follows:

1.. the following paragraph is added to Article 17:
'Member States shall communicate to the Commission, within 30 days of that date, the total amount of aid approved for all operational programmes.';
2.. in Article 26(1), ‘1 June’ is replaced by ‘15 November’;
3.. in Annex I, point 2(d) is replaced by:
'
((d)) quality improvement measures, including certified mycelium and plants and seed of the categories “basic seed” and “certified seed”, as defined by Council Directive 2002/55/EC;'
4.. in part 3 of Annex III, point 3 is deleted.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
However, Article 1(3) shall not apply to operational programmes already approved by the Member States.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 19 October 2004.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission