Translation of "Système de contrôle simple " (French → English) :

there must be an in-depth reform of the financing of the EU budget, to return to a system of genuine, clear, simple and fair own resources, offering the guarantees over decision making and democratic control inherent in all public budgets;

5. Stresses the need to simplify the rules without impairing the quality of expenditure and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of implementation; takes the view that a transparent, robust and easy-to-manage funding system should be counterbalanced by a rigorous monitoring system; calls on the Commission to draw up proposals for a methodology for checking the effectiveness and efficiency of research expenditure;

121. Takes note of the concern expressed by the Court of Auditors at the difficulties of taking a definitive and unchangeable snapshot, solely in the annual report, of the changing and progressive reality that is the Cohesion Policy budget, subject to a multiannual and dynamic schedule in which the final percentages of errors and irregularities with consequences, and the real amounts subject to recovery, can be verified only at a much later stage (the Commission has just closed the accounts for the 1994-1999 period); to that end calls on the Commission to present, in addition to the current Action Plan, a proposal in cooperation with the Court of Auditors for solving these phasing difficulties between the multiannual budgetary framework and the annual ...[+++] auditing system; considers that such a proposal would also be useful to ensure there is more efficient control of major European projects such as Galileo;

Simple, common diagnostic systems are available that can be used by testing organisations to test the vast majority of the speed limiters equipped.

(4) Today simple, common diagnostic systems are available that can be used by testing organisations to test the vast majority of the speed limiters equipped.

The Member States' reports refer to monitoring and control methods varying in form (actual records, monitoring of daily programmes, collection of data from broadcasters, survey, sampling, simple estimation in some cases, etc.) and sometimes differing according to the means of transmission (e.g. monitoring of daily programmes for terrestrial channels and survey for cable).