€ 77.13 million charged to France because direct aid was paid for ineligible land, and sanctions were not applied; € 33.36 million charged to Spain for the weaknesses concerning the key control on the management of production potential, i.e. the ban on vine planting without the prior award of replanting or new planting rights; € 9.41 million charged to Italy for incomplete checks on products withdrawn for destruction, late checks and insufficient rate of checks on accounting and documentation, insufficient checks on the quantity marketed, weaknesses in checks on product quality; no surveillance or verification of delegated controls; € 8.68 million ch ...[+++]arged to France for lack of checks on projects funded by means of soft loans, several deficiencies concerning the check of minimum standards, lack of a specific aid exclusion or reduction regime; € 8.07 million charged to Greece for imprecise identification of parcels receiving aid, poor application of cross checks against the IACS systems, deficient on-the-spot controls of surfaces and of Good Farming Practices.

The scope of the specific control rules should mirror the scope of the specific hygiene rules for food business operators laid down in Regulation (EC) No 853/2004.

The scope of the specific control rules should mirror the scope of the specific hygiene rules for food business operators laid down in Regulation (EC) No./2004 .

I would like to associate myself with the prayer in the petition which reads: Whereas there is no proven connection between gun control legislation and a decrease in the occurrence of criminal activity; And whereas all handguns in Canada are required by law to be registered; And whereas crimes involving the use of firearms already carry severe penalties under the Criminal Code; And whereas criminals by definition feel no compulsion to abide by the law; We the undersigned feel that implementing more restrictive firearms controls which will affect o ...[+++]nly law abiding citizens is an unjustifiable action and the proper course of action for responsible governments to follow is more effective prosecution and tougher sentencing of criminals.

The Commission is proposing improvements to monitoring of the CFP in the following areas: - 3 - - technical measures - use of modern techniques to locate vessels (satellites); - computerized transmission of communications; - legal measures - extend the scope of the control to the aspects of Structures and Markets of the common fisheries policy; - greater powers for Community inspectors; - greater responsibilities on all those concerned, from production to the marketing of fishery products; - harmonization and modernization of legal proceedings; - more dissuasive penalties for infringements with minimum penalities and increased pena ...[+++]lties for habitual offenders; - a system of Community penalties applying to all activities relevant to Community competence; - penalization of all forms of overfishing; - increased inspections of landings and transport by land; - economic measures - link the allocation of financial aid with a condition to respect the conservation measures; - social measures - encouragrement for voluntary limitation at all levels and greater information for all concerned: producers, dealers, consumers and legal authorities; - operational measures - improved cooperation between the Commission and the Member States in carrying out inspections; - establishment of a CFP monitoring committee; - a programme for the training and exchange of inspectors.

In therory, an application to grant aid should be rejected, but in really exceptional cases, says the report, where Commission and Council both consider that aid should be permitted, the following principles ought to be applied : - independent expert opinion and excess capacity closures on a very large scale, - commitment by both government and undertaking to close capacities on a very strict timetable, - stringent inspection of the use of the aid, - payment of the aid only when the restructuring programme has been completed, - if for exceptional reasons any aid should be paid before the necessary closures, the Member State concerned mus ...[+++]t undertake, in the event of the conditions for granting the aid not being complied with, to pay to the ECSC budget an amount equivalent to the aid granted and at the same time the Commission would reduce the undertaking's production and delivery quotas.