A revised control strategy, shifting focus from minimisation of error rates towards risk-based control and fraud detection, should reduce the control burden for participants.

Modernised control approaches addressing the porosity of legal and illicit trade may include options for strengthening the legal basis and upgrading certain control modalities in order to cover all aspects and actors in the chain of controls and address divergent applications of controls and related vulnerabilities.

4. Repeats its invitation to the Commission, when fine-tuning its control strategy, to identify the point at which lack of results and the costs of control call for a policy change; in this connection looks forward to receiving the Commission report on the results of the tolerable risk/cost effectiveness studies on external action and the review of the EuropeAid control strategy, in good time for the 2009 discharge procedure;

65. Notes with satisfaction the Court's recognition of Europe Aid's efforts to develop a control strategy; takes the view that an efficient control strategy aims at preventing errors ex-ante and not primarily at recovering undue paid funds ex-post; invites the Commission to continue developing its control strategy in the light of this approach, which is a priority for the discharge authority ;

220. Calls, in this regard, for the setting up of sub-committees on human rights within the framework of the Association Agreements so as to develop a structured dialogue on human rights and democracy and to identify the key areas of concern to be dealt with in the ENP action plans; emphasises the importance of consulting and involving civil society in the work of these sub-committees in order to better monitor the human rights situation; also stresses the need for Parliament to be closely associated in the work and the follow-up of these sub-committees; in this respect, calls on the Commission once again to draw up a progress report ...[+++]on the human rights situation in the ENP countries;

215. Calls, in this regard, for the setting up of sub-committees on human rights within the framework of the Association Agreements so as to develop a structured dialogue on human rights and democracy and to identify the key areas of concern to be dealt with in the ENP action plans; emphasises the importance of consulting and involving civil society in the work of these sub-committees in order to better monitor the human rights situation; also stresses the need for Parliament to be closely associated in the work and the follow-up of these sub-committees; in this respect, calls on the Commission once again to draw up a progress report ...[+++]on the human rights situation in the ENP countries;