Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/220 of 3 February 2015 laying down rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 setting up a network for the collection of accountancy data on the incomes and business operation of agricultural holdings in the European Union

The thresholds of economic size as referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 are set out in Annex I to this Regulation.

The number of returning holdings per Member State and per farm accountancy data network (FADN) division as referred to in Article 5a(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 are set out in Annex II to this Regulation.

1 Models and methods relating to the form and content of the data referred to in Article 5a(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 are set out in Annex III to this Regulation.

2 Member States shall notify the Commission, by electronic means, of the selection plan referred to in Article 5a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 and approved by the National Committee referred to in Article 6(2) of that Regulation not later than two months before the beginning of the accounting year to which it relates.

The methods for the calculation of particular types of farming specialisations as referred to in Article 5b(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 and their correspondence with general and principal types of farming as referred to in that Article are set out in Annex IV to this Regulation.

The method for the calculation of the economic size of the holding as referred to in Article 5b(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 and the economic size classes as referred to in Article 5b(1) of that Regulation are set out in Annex V to this Regulation.

1 The method for the calculation to determine the standard outputs of each characteristic as referred to in Article 5b(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 and the procedures for collecting the corresponding data are set out in Annex VI to this Regulation. The standard output of the different characteristics of a holding as referred to in Article 5b(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 shall be determined for each geographical unit referred to in point 2(b) of Annex VI to this Regulation and for each crop and livestock characteristics of the farm structure survey listed in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1166/2008.

2 The total standard output of a holding shall be obtained by multiplying the standard outputs of each crop and livestock characteristics by the number of corresponding units.

The other gainful activities directly related to the holding as referred to in Article 5b(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 are defined in Part A of Annex VII to this Regulation. Their importance shall be expressed as a percentage band. Those percentage bands are set out in Part C of Annex VII to this Regulation. The method by which the importance of the gainful activities referred to in the first paragraph is estimated is set out in Parts B and C of Annex VII to this Regulation.

1 Member States shall submit to the Commission (Eurostat) the standard outputs and the data for their determination as referred to in Article 5b(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 for a reference period of year N before 31 December of the year N+3.

2 For the submission of the data referred to in paragraph 1 Member States shall use the computerised systems made available by the Commission (Eurostat) for that purpose.

The form and layout of presentation of the accountancy data referred to in Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 as well as the instructions related thereto are laid down in Annex VIII to this Regulation.

1 The farm returns shall be submitted to the Commission by the liaison agency referred to in Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 via a computerised delivery and control system as referred to in Article 19(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009. The required information shall be exchanged electronically on the basis of models made available to the liaison agency via that system.

2 Member States shall be informed of the general conditions for implementing the computerised system referred to in paragraph 1 via the Committee for the Farm Accountancy Data Network.

3 The farm returns shall be submitted to the Commission by 31 December after the end of the accounting year in question. Member States which were not able to deliver the 2012 farm return data within the time period set out in the first subparagraph may submit the farm returns to the Commission up to three months after the deadline referred to in the first subparagraph.

4 Farm returns are deemed delivered to the Commission once the accountancy data referred to in Article 9 have been introduced in the computerised delivery and control system referred to in paragraph 1, the subsequent computer-based checks have been executed and the liaison agency has confirmed that the data are ready to be loaded into that system.

For the purposes of Article 19(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 a farm return is duly completed when its content is factually accurate and the accountancy data contained therein are recorded and presented in accordance with the form and layout set out in Annex VIII to this Regulation.

The total number of duly completed and submitted farm returns per Member State as referred to in Article 5a(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 that are eligible for the payment of the standard fee shall not exceed the total number of returning holdings laid down for that Member State in Annex II to this Regulation. Where Member States have more than one FADN division, the number of duly completed and submitted farm returns per FADN division that are eligible for payment of the standard fee may be up to 20 % higher than the number laid down for the FADN division concerned, provided that the total number of duly completed and submitted farm returns of the Member State concerned shall not be higher than the total number laid down for that Member State in Annex II to this Regulation.

The total amount of the standard fee referred to in Article 19(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 shall be paid in two instalments: (a) a payment corresponding to 50 % of the total amount calculated on the basis of the amount fixed in the first paragraph of Article 14 of this Regulation shall be made at the beginning of each accounting year for the number of returning holdings laid down in Annex II to this Regulation; (b) the remaining amount shall be paid after the submitted farm returns have been verified by the Commission as being duly completed. The remaining amount referred to in point (b) of the first paragraph of this Article shall be calculated by multiplying the standard fee per farm return calculated on the basis of Article 14 of this Regulation by the number of duly completed farm returns that are eligible pursuant to Article 12 of this Regulation and by subtracting the payment referred to in point (a) of the first paragraph of this Article.

The standard fee referred to in Article 19(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 shall be fixed at EUR 160 per farm return. If the 80 % threshold referred to in Article 19(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 is not met neither at the level of a FADN division nor at the level of the Member State concerned, the reduction referred to in that provision shall be applied only at national level. If the Member State submits the accountancy data referred to in Article 9 of this Regulation not later than one month before the relevant deadlines referred to in Article 10(3), the standard fee is increased by EUR 5 unless the 80 % threshold referred to in Article 19(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1217/2009 in respect of a FADN division or a Member State has not been met.

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 283/2012 and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 730/2013 are repealed with effect from 1 January 2015. However, they shall continue to apply to accounting years preceding the accounting year 2015.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from the accounting year 2015.