The methods and deadlines for data transmission to the Commission
Article 10
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.