4. For the purposes of verifying the operator’s emission report, the verifier shall decide, based on the risk analysis, whether visits to additional locations are needed, including where relevant parts of data flow activities and control activities are carried out in other locations such as company headquarters and other off-site offices.

7. Where the Competent Body has received evidence, other than by means of a written supervision report of the Accreditation or Licensing Body, that activities of the environmental verifier were not performed adequately enough to ensure that the requirements of this Regulation are met by the organisation, it shall consult the Accreditation or Licensing Body supervising the environmental verifier.

7. Where the Competent Body has received evidence otherwise than through a supervision report of the Accreditation Body, that activities of the environmental verifier were not performed adequately enough to ensure that the requirements of this Regulation are met by the organisation, it shall consult the Accreditation Body supervising the environmental verifier.

In this case, the Commission shall, within a further two months and after consultation with the auditor, the system vendor and any other party claiming a legitimate interest, decide whether or not the auditor is to be replaced.

43. Notes that there is a tension between the necessity of separating the responsibilities of Parliament's administration and those of the political groups on the one hand and the Financial Regulation on the other which does not explicitly provide for any such separation; instructs its Bureau to ensure that Parliament's implementating rules of the Financial Regulation include a provision identifying the specific status of political groups so that their particular responsibilities can be clearly and properly regulated; recalls the remarks by the Court of Auditors that the differing audit procedures employed by the various auditors mean that these external audits have had limited effectiveness in assessing overall control mechanisms on the ...[+++]3701 budget line; expects the situation to show marked improvement in the future following the decision to limit the choice of external auditors to a short list of internationally recognised audit firms and a common audit framework;

43. Notes that there is a tension between the necessity of separating the responsibilities of Parliament’s administration and those of the political groups on the one hand and the Financial Regulation on the other which does not explicitly provide for any such separation; asks the Commission to include, in its proposal for implementation rules to the Financial Regulation, a provision identifying the specific status of political groups so that their particular responsibilities can be clearly and properly regulated; recalls the remarks by the Court of Auditors that the differing audit procedures employed by the various auditors mean that these external audits have had limited effectiveness in assessing overall control mechanisms on the 3701 ...[+++] budget line; expects the situation to show marked improvement in the future following the decision to limit the choice of external auditors to a short list of internationally recognised audit firms and a common audit framework;