Activites

• 1995/06/08 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 1995/1287
  • OJ L 125 08.06.1995, p. 0001
• #1846
• 1995/05/22 Council Meeting
• 1995/05/22 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1995/05/22 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 1995/05/02 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(1995)0161 summary

    The Commission incorporated in its amended proposal the great majority of the amendments approved by Parliament in its plenary session. The amendments incorporated, among other things, give Parliament the possibility to receive useful information to better evaluate expenditures in the Member States.The text of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 had also been adapted to take account of the results of the considerations by the Council's technical groups.

• 1995/03/17 Debate in Parliament
  • T4-0126/1995 summary

    The European Parliament approved the proposal for a regulation, subject to a number of amendments which aimed to: - stress that the Member States should assume full practical responsibility for checking EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure; - strengthen the Commission's right to carry out checks: it should be entitled and enabled to carry out all checks into the management of expenditure it considered necessary; - ensure effective transparency and mutual assistance between the Member States and the Commission; - ensure consistency in the standards required for accreditation of paying agencies in the Member States: to this end, the Commission should set out detailed instructions on the criteria to be applied and ensure that they were respected throughout the Community; - ensure that the Commission had full and immediate access to information on expenditure; - separate the procedure for the clearance of accounts into two types of decision: one for the establishment and adoption of the EAGGF accounts for the reference year; the other to determine the consequences, including financial corrections, to be drawn from the results of compliance audits. �

• 1995/02/23 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0037/1995
• 1994/12/15 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • COM(1994)0240 summary

    This proposal followed on from the conclusions of a group of experts, chaired by Mr Belle, on the functioning of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 on the financing on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Several changes were proposed to Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 with a view to revising the objectives of the reformed clearance procedure: enhanced preventive measures, based on greater cooperation and partnership, applied at the same time as the operations, providing increased legal certainty, and accompanied by adequate procedural guarantees. To this end, it was proposed that two distinct procedures for the clearance of accounts be defined: - One concerned the clearing of accounts proper, through a procedure involving the rendering and adoption of accounts, reduced to the fundamental account audits concerning the annual statements of account provided by the Member States, based on a system of certification and within a shorter time frame, and resulting in a single annual decision in all the Member States, whose goal would be to determine the total expenditure to be entered against the Guarantee Section of the EAGGF in the general account; - The other involved checks on conformity, broken down into an amicable phase and, if this did not work, a contentious phase: the Commission would carry out on-the-spot checks in the Member States, which would not be linked to a particular financial year, with the only reservation being that they were limited to a time frame of no more than three years. In the case of an irregularity requiring a financial correction, the Commission would propose the necessary measures to the Member States concerned (amicable phase). If there was disagreement as to the measures to be taken, a conciliation body could be convened, without prejudice to proceedings before the Court of Justice (contentious phase). It was important to note that irrespective of whether or not agreement was reached, any financial correction should be subject to an official decision by the Commission. �

• 1994/12/13 Debate in Parliament
• 1994/12/02 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0096/1994
• 1994/09/14 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading

Documents

• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0096/1994
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: COM(1994)0240
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0037/1995
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0126/1995
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(1995)0161
• : Regulation 1995/1287
• : OJ L 125 08.06.1995, p. 0001

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)