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2. The EAGF shall also provide financial contributions to Member States in order to contribute to Member States’ implementation costs when setting up the system for collecting the environmental and social variables under this Regulation, including for training and interoperability between data collection systems, necessitates significant adaptations in the FADN data collection system of a Member State. Such contributions shall be provided to Member States by 31 December 2027.

3. The amount referred to in paragraph 1, point (a), may be partly or entirely paid to farmers for their participation in FSDN surveys in accordance with allocation criteria established by Member States.

4. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing the detailed procedures in relation to the amount referred to in paragraph 1, point (a), and to the contributions referred to in paragraph 2. In the implementing acts relating to the contributions, the Commission shall make clear on the basis of which criteria those contributions are to be allocated. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19b(2).

1. The European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) shall finance expenditure covering:

(a) an amount payable to the Member States for the delivery of duly completed farm returns delivered within the set deadline up to the maximum number of returning holdings as fixed in accordance with Article 5a(2); where the total number of duly completed and delivered farm returns in respect of an FSDN division or a Member State is less than 80 % of the number of returning holdings laid down in accordance with Article 5a(2) and (3) for that FSDN division or for the Member State concerned, the amount applied for each farm return from that FSDN division or from the Member State concerned shall be reduced by 20 %; if such reduction was already applied for the two previous consecutive years in respect of an FSDN division or a Member State, the reduction shall be of 25 %;

(b) all the costs of the computerised data systems operated by the Commission for running and developing the FSDN and for the reception, verification, processing, interoperability and analysis of the data supplied by the Member States; those costs include, where appropriate, the costs of disseminating the results of those operations and the costs of studies into, and development of, other aspects of the FSDN.