7Article 3 of Regulation No 1788/2003, headed ‘Payment of the levy’, states:1. Member States shall be liable to the Community for the levy resulting from overruns of the national reference quantity, determined nationally and separately for deliveries and direct sales, and before 1 October following the twelve-month period concerned, shall pay it, within the limit of 99% of the amount due, into the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF).2. If the levy provided for in paragraph 1 has not been paid before the due date and after consultation of the Committee of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, the Commission shall deduct a sum equivalent to the unpaid levy from the monthly advances on the provision for expenditure effected by the Member State concerned within the meaning of Article 5(1) and Article 7(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (OJ 1999 L 160, p. 103) …3. The Commission shall determine the arrangements for implementation of this Article in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 23(2).’
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