Decision 2005/387/JHA reserves to the Council implementing powers to enable the provision of a quick, expertise-based response at Union level to the emergence of new psychoactive substances detected and reported by the Member States, by means of submitting those substances to control measures across the Union.

Without prejudice to the Commission's powers as regards financial control, cooperation between the Member States and the Commission in this field should be increased and criteria should be established which allow the Commission to determine, in the context of its strategy of control of national systems, the level of assurance it can obtain from national audit bodies.

The link between birds, horses and West Nile virus is yet another rather different example of the same thing. The reality is that in this tiny modern world we need both powerful checks and controls at the national level and powerful, effective, local agencies with truly effective communication, with linkages between the two levels.

37. Any system introduced at Community level must guarantee the competent authorities of Member States which do not currently control such cash movements under national law the powers to apply effective controls.

The principles which should guide Community and Member States' development cooperation are: - gender analysis at macro-, meso- and micro-level must be mainstreamed in the conception, design and implementation of all development policies and interventions, as well as in monitoring and evaluation; - women and men should both participate in and benefit from the development process on an equal basis; - reducing gender disparities is a priority for society as a whole; - analysis of differences and disparities between women and men must be a key criterion for assessing the goals and results of development policies and interventions; - deve ...[+++]lopment cooperation must encourage and support changes in attitudes, structures and mechanisms at political, legal, community and household level in order to reduce gender inequalities and in particular: = political power-sharing and full and equal participation in decision-making must be promoted at all levels, = economic empowerment and equal access to and control over economic resources must be strengthened, = equal access to and control over social development opportunities must be fostered.

The Council approved a "Statement on the DAS" which is reproduced in Annex II. FIGHT AGAINST FRAUD: COMMISSION WORK PROGRAMME FOR 1996 - CONCLUSIONS "THE COUNCIL - welcomes the programme for the fight against fraud submitted by the Commission for 1996; - recalls the Madrid European Council's conclusions of 15 and 16 December 1995 on fraud and the protection of the financial interests of the Communities and in particular the European Council's invitation to the Member States and Institutions to adopt "the necessary measures to ensure an equivalent level of protection throughout the Community and in the Community budget and the EDF as a ...[+++]whole"; - notes that the Commission programme comes within the context of these conclusions and of those of the ECOFIN Council of 27 November 1995 and that it also takes account of certain remarks made by the Council in connection with the 1995 work programme; - supports the general guidelines of the specific measures envisaged by the Commission under the four headings identified when the anti-fraud strategy was presented in 1994, i.e.: = as regards a stronger presence on the ground and firmer support for operational activities: improved inspections in third countries, in particular in the CCEEs and the Mediterranean countries, increased prevention of irregularities in the field of transit, extension, whilst observing the respective powers of national administrations, of the SCENT mutual assistance network to sectors other than the customs sector; = as regards strengthening the partnership between the Commission and the Member States: the development of information networks, better use of the results of risk analysis, the training of officials in the Member States; examination, as part of the programme for Sound and Efficient Financial Management (SEM 2000), of the possibility of extending the system of disallowing finance from agriculture to other areas, in accordance with the Madrid European Council's conclusions; = as regards ...