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1. Each Member State shall appoint a liaison agency the tasks of which shall be to:

(a) inform the National Committee, the Regional Committees and the data collectors of the applicable regulatory framework and to ensure proper implementation thereof;

(b) draw up the plan for the selection of returning holdings, to submit it to the National Committee for its approval and, thereafter, to forward it to the Commission;

(c) compile:

(i) the list of returning holdings;

(ii) where applicable, the list of the data collectors able to complete farm returns;

(d) produce the farm returns;

(e) verify that the farm returns have been duly completed and, where necessary, address any errors or inaccuracies detected;

(f) forward the duly completed farm returns to the Commission in the required format and within the set deadline;

(g) send the links or the data referred to in Article 4a(1);

(h) transmit the requests for information provided for in Article 17 to the National Committee, to the Regional Committees and to the data collectors, and forward the relevant answers to the Commission;

(i) offer to any returning holding the possibility to obtain its results, either from the liaison agency or from an organisation it appoints, as soon as possible but in any event no later than four months after the Commission confirms that the farm return is duly completed; where possible, those results shall include benchmarking information, comparing those results with regional, national, Union or sectoral averages;

(j) set out a plan to incentivise farmers' participation in the FSDN and submit it to the Commission together with the plan for the selection of returning holdings;

(k) make available, either by itself or by an organisation it appoints, the obtained results in the form of aggregated and anonymised data such as at regional, national, Union or sectoral level.

2. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down detailed rules for the application of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19b(2).