Article 7
1. Each Member State shall appoint a liaison agency whose duties shall be to: (a) inform the National Committee, the Regional Committees and the accountancy offices of the detailed rules of application concerning them and to ensure that those rules are properly implemented; (b) draw up and submit to the National Committee for its approval, and thereafter to forward to the Commission: (i) the plan for the selection of returning holdings, which shall be drawn up on the basis of the most recent statistical data, presented in accordance with the Community typology for agricultural holdings; (ii) the report on the implementation of the plan for the selection of returning holdings; (c) compile: (i) the list of returning holdings; (ii) the list of the accountancy offices willing and able to complete farm returns in accordance with the terms of the contracts provided for in Articles 10 and 15; (d) assemble the farm returns sent to it by the accountancy offices and to verify on the basis of a common inspection programme that they have been duly completed; (e) forward the duly completed farm returns to the Commission immediately after verification; (f) transmit to the National Committee, the Regional Committees and the accountancy offices the requests for information provided for in Article 17 and to forward the relevant answers to the Commission. 2. The detailed rules for the application of this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 18(2).