Translation of "investigation and control systems " (English → French) :

6. Reiterates its demand that the Commission draft proposals to sanction false or incorrect reporting by the Member States' authorities in the management of Union funds; recalls that almost all paying agencies for direct payments were accredited and certified by the certifying authorities in the Member States and is therefore concerned that some paying agencies have particularly high error rates; calls in this context on the Member States to implement a 'better spending' of the Union budget by ensuring more effective and efficient national management and control systems ...[+++]; also calls on the Commission to submit proposals for ways in which Member States can strengthen ex-ante checks so as to reduce the number of sums unduly paid, and secure a system whereby proper investigations are carried out into suspicions of false or incorrect reporting and such reporting is sanctioned;

38. Highlights the ever-increasing wide divergence in Member States’ approaches to fraud, reflecting chiefly legal and organisational differences, both among Member States and between administrations in the same country, but also the fact that fraud detection is approached in a variety of ways; is greatly concerned that in cases of fraudulent irregularities some Member States limit their actions to the application of financial corrections instead of investigating the potential criminal offence; emphasises that such failure to investigate criminal offences could encourage fraudulent behaviours, thereby undermining the fight against frau ...[+++]d and fraudsters; calls on those Member States concerned to invest more resources to combat fraud, including through criminal proceedings; asks the Commission to continue to monitor closely the workings and effectiveness of Member States’ current surveillance and control systems and stresses how important it is that the Commission should establish uniform reporting principles for all of the Member States; calls on the Member States to implement the Commission’s recommendations, in particular with regard to early detection, simplification of rules and rapid reporting;

38. Highlights the ever-increasing wide divergence in Member States’ approaches to fraud, reflecting chiefly legal and organisational differences, both among Member States and between administrations in the same country, but also the fact that fraud detection is approached in a variety of ways; is greatly concerned that in cases of fraudulent irregularities some Member States limit their actions to the application of financial corrections instead of investigating the potential criminal offence; emphasises that such failure to investigate criminal offences could encourage fraudulent behaviours, thereby undermining the fight against frau ...[+++]d and fraudsters; calls on those Member States concerned to invest more resources to combat fraud, including through criminal proceedings; asks the Commission to continue to monitor closely the workings and effectiveness of Member States’ current surveillance and control systems and stresses how important it is that the Commission should establish uniform reporting principles for all of the Member States; calls on the Member States to implement the Commission’s recommendations, in particular with regard to early detection, simplification of rules and rapid reporting;

The quality control system includes access to quality control laboratories and must retain samples of each batch of products for at least a year after their expiry date for medicines; and for investigational medicines, at least 2 years after the end of the clinical trial in which they were used.

questions why insufficient action was taken by competent authorities in Spain, even though weaknesses in control systems were reported by the Commission (Financial Control and the Agriculture Directorate-General) and the Anti-Fraud Office; asks the Anti-Fraud Office to investigate similar irregularities in the flax sector in other Member States; asks the Committee on Budgetary Control to continue to monitor developments in those cases; expects the Commission to apply rigorous financial corr ...[+++]ections to Spain and other Member States under the clearance of accounts procedure; expects the Commission to sanction adequately the violation of Community legislation both by the producers of flax and by the processing factories;

The Commission considers that a harmonised Community approach to the design of control systems would make for more consistent and better-quality controls. It therefore proposes a Community framework of national control systems comprising three core elements: definition of operational criteria set up at Community level; development of Community control guidelines; and enhanced administrative cooperation in the design and operation of control systems.