ensure that the delegated acts are duly justified and do not create significant additional burden on the Member States or returning holdings;

carry out analyses of the relevance, feasibility and proportionality of such an amendment, including the availability and quality of appropriate data sources, in particular relevant administrative sources, and take the results of those analyses duly into account;

ensure that new topics added are linked to the CAP objectives;

not add new topics until 20 December 2028;

adopt those delegated acts, when new topics are added, at least one year before the date of application of the related implementing act as referred to in Article 8(4).

the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) established by Regulation (EU) 2021/2116 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 6 );

the system for the identification and registration of kept terrestrial animals established by Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 7 );

the vineyard register implemented in accordance with Article 145 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 8 );

the organic farming registers set up pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 9 );

Member States’ data for performing the monitoring and evaluation of CAP Strategic Plans (DME) obtained in accordance with the implementing act adopted on the basis of Article 133 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 10 );

where relevant, farm-level records collected for the establishment by Member States of action programmes pursuant to Article 5 of Council Directive 91/676/EEC ( 11 );

any other relevant data source accessible to Member States’ authorities.

DME;

IACS.

Member States shall send to the Commission either those links, or directly the data related to the returning holding in the datasets referred to in the first subparagraph, other than identifiers. The Member States which send the data directly shall provide the FSDN number of the returning holding.

ensure that the delegated acts are duly justified and do not create significant additional burden on the Member States or returning holdings;

carry out analyses of the relevance, feasibility, proportionality and quality of such datasets and take the results of those analyses duly into account.

be covered by the field of the survey referred to in paragraph 1;

be representative, together with the other holdings and at the level of each FSDN division, of the field of survey.

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

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;

compile:

produce the farm returns;

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

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

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

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;

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;

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;

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.

describe the returning holding by reference to the main elements of its factors of production;

describe the income of the holding in its various forms;

describe the economic, environmental and social situation of the holding;

verify the information given by appropriate means, such as on-the-spot checks and remote controls.

the variables and the definitions of variables linked to one or more of the topics set out in Annex -I;

the start and the end of the reporting year;

the form and layout of the farm return;

the methods and deadlines for data transmission to the Commission, including possible extensions of deadlines and exemptions for specific variables that may be granted to a Member State upon justified request;

the frequency of data transmission, which shall be annual or less frequent depending on the nature of variables.

When adopting those implementing acts, the Commission shall, to the greatest extent possible, make use of variables available from existing data sources when adding, modifying or replacing variables, and take into account the need not to create significant additional burden on the Member States or returning holdings. Before adopting those implementing acts, the Commission shall analyse the feasibility of the proposed variables based, inter alia, on inputs from Member States, including the availability and quality of new and existing data sources, possible implementation of new methods, and the financial burden on the Member States and returning holdings. The results of that analysis shall be discussed in the committee referred to in Article 19b(1).

The implementing acts referred to in this paragraph shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19b(2).

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 %;

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.