
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000 is hereby amended as follows:

1.. Article 15(4) shall be replaced by the following:
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4. For the purpose of this Article, a tolerance of 5 % shall be permitted when checking the areas concerned.The tolerance provided for in the first subparagraph shall not apply to the payment of aid.'
2.. Article 15a(3) is replaced by the following:
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3. For the purpose of this Article, a tolerance of 5 % shall be permitted when checking the areas concerned.The tolerance provided for in the first subparagraph shall not apply to the payment of aid.'
3.. The following paragraph 9 is added to Article 17:
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9. In the case of the 2005 financial year:
(a) any Member State for which the 2004/2005 wine year is the first year of application of the restructuring and conversion scheme and which reports to the Commission under Article 16(1)(a) and (b) an amount below 90 % of the financial allocation awarded to it under Commission Decision 2004/687/EC may apply to the Commission, no later than 10 July 2005, for a further contribution to expenditure in the 2005 financial year above that notified to the Commission under Article 16(1)(a) and (b) and up to 90 % of the financial allocation awarded to it by Decision 2004/687/EC;
(b) applications for further funding sent to the Commission under Article 16(1)(c) by the Member States not referred to in point (a) of this paragraph shall be accepted on a pro rata basis by using the available appropriations once the amounts for all Member States notified under Article 16(1)(a) and (b) and accepted and the total of the amounts accepted under point (a) of this paragraph have together been deducted;
(c) the Commission shall notify the Member States of their definitive allocations for 2005 as soon as possible.'
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.
Points 1 and 2 of Article 1 shall apply to aid applications approved from 1 August 2005.
Point 3 of Article 1 shall apply from 1 July 2005.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 7 July 2005.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission