Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1709/2003 is amended as follows:

1. (1)

   Article 3 is replaced by the following:

   ‘Article 3

   1.

   Member States with rice producers or rice mills shall notify the Commission:

   (a)

   before 15 November, of the information shown in Annexes I and II resulting from a summary of the data provided in the declarations referred to in Article 1(a) and Article 2;

   (b)

   before 15 December, of the information shown in Annex III, resulting from a summary of the data provided in the crop declarations referred to in Article 1(b) and the estimated whole-grain yield forecast for the harvest.

   The transmitted data may be amended up to 15 January at the latest.

   2.

   The notifications referred to in paragraph 1 and in Article 4 shall be made in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/2009^f1.’;

2. (2)

   in Annexes I, II and III, in the introductory phrase, the words ‘to the following e-mail address, in accordance with Article 3(2): [email protected]’ are deleted.