specimen uniformly stressed in push-pull machines

4. Takes note that the FP6 ex-post audit controls have been finalised in 2012 and the final findings of the auditors show that the costs for the sample audited were overstated by EUR 455 836,66 or 1,4 % of the audited grants; notes from the Agency that it plans to recover most of the amounts found to be incorrect by the external auditors, pending agreement with the Commission, and urges the Agency to inform the discharge authority whether it succeeds to recover the disputed amounts;

4. Takes note that the FP6 ex-post audit controls have been finalised in 2012 and the final findings of the auditors show that the costs for the sample audited were overstated by 455 836,66 EUR, or 1,4 % of the audited grants; notes from the Agency that it plans to recover most of the amounts found to be incorrect by our external auditors, pending agreement with the Commission, and urges the Agency to inform the discharge authority whether it succeeds to recover the disputed amounts;

12. Considers that the upcoming review of the Type Approval Framework Directive must expand and specify the conformity-of-production requirements in order to ensure that a sufficient and representative sample of new models taken off production lines at random are tested on an annual basis, using RDE tests to check their compliance with EU pollutant limit values; calls, furthermore, for improved in-service testing of vehicles already used on the road, also on the basis of the RDE procedure, in order to verify the in-service conformity of vehicles at different mileages as required under the regulation; calls for the improvement of on-roa ...[+++]d surveillance through periodic technical inspections to identify and repair vehicles not in compliance with EU law;

14. Considers that the upcoming review of the type-approval framework directive must expand and specify the requirements for conformity of production so as to ensure that a sufficient and representative sample of new models, taken at random off the production lines, is tested annually using RDE tests to verify compliance with European pollutant and CO2 limit values; calls furthermore for improved in-service testing of vehicles already in use on the road – likewise on the basis of the RDE procedure – in order to verify in-service conformity of vehicles at different mileages as required under the Regulation; calls for an improvement of o ...[+++]n-road surveillance through periodic technical inspections to identify and repair vehicles which are found not to be in compliance with EU law;