17.10.2001 Official Journal of the European Communities L274/3 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2025/2001 of 16 October 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 1663/95 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 regarding the procedure for the clearance of the accounts of the EAGGF Guarantee Section THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (1), and in particular Article 4(8), Article 6(2) and Article 7(5) thereof, Whereas: (1)  Article 9(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 and Article 2(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2390/ 1999 of 25 October 1999 laying down detailed rules of the application of Regulation (EC) No 166395 as regards the form and content of the accounting informa- tion that the Member States must hold at the disposal of the Commission for the purposes of the clearance of the EAGGF Guarantee Section accounts (%), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1863/2001 (}), require the Member States to make accounting information avail- able to the Commission on request of the latter. Article 4(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1663/95 of 7 July 1995 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 regarding the procedure for the clearance of the accounts of the EAGGF Guarantee Section (%), as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) 2245/1999 (%), should be adapted to these rules. (2)  The requirements for reporting on amounts to be recov- ered in the annual declaration pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) 1663/95, on the one hand, and in the monthly accounts pursuant to Article 3(6a) of Commis- sion Regulation (EC) No 29696 of 16 February 1996 on data to be transmitted by the Member States and the monthly booking of expenditure financed under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (%), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1934/2001 (’), on the other hand, are different. These requirements should be 160, 26.9.1999, p. 103. 295, 16.11.1999, p. 1. 259, 27.9.2001, p. 1. 158, 8.7.1995, p. 6. 273, 23.10.1999, p. 5. 39, 17.12.1996, p. 5. 262, 2.10.2001, p. 8. STS B LLoLeene e 3 Slelrlslewe harmonised by amending Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 166395 accordingly. (3)  Pursuant to Article 5(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999 of 17 May 1999 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricul- tural policy (%), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1244/ 2001 (°), Member States may use the amounts released by the reductions or cancellations of payments under Articles 3 and 4 of that Regulation for certain measures within the framework of aid for rural development. The amounts thus retained from the aid payments must be credited to a specific account opened for each paying agency or on a specific unique account opened at the level of the Member State and intended exclusively for the financing of the additional Community support. This account should also be part of the annual accounts within the meaning of Article 4(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1663/95. (4 The guidelines for criteria for accreditation as a paying agency in respect of the processing of claims by means of a computer system should be updated in the light of developments in computer processing. (5)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Fund Committee, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 1663/95 is amended as follows: 1. In Article 2(1), the last indent of the first subparagraph and the first sentence of the second subparagraph are deleted. 2. In Article 2(3), the words ‘paragraph 1’ are replaced by the words ‘Article 4(1)c of this Regulation’. 3. The following text is added at the end of Article 4(1): ‘(c) a full record of all accounting information required for statistical and control purposes in the form and of the content established on the basis of Article 2(3) of this Regulation’ ® OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 113. 0J () O] L 173, 27.6.2001, p. 1.