the US requires a full management discussions and analysis report and other detailed non-financial information in each quarterly report, while the Commission is proposing only a half-yearly update of the last annual management report

In hindsight, it might have been better to have gone to one of those departments, which are familiar with transactional analysis and data collection, rather than leaving the program in the Department of Justice.

Leaving the analysis of the accounts relating to the management of the development budget to the Committee on Budgetary Control, we take the view that the Committee on Development should concentrate on analysing the progress made in achieving the objective of reducing poverty, in keeping with the forecasts given in its opinion on the 2000 budget, and with the corresponding commitment given by the Commission and Council.

With regard to the annual monitoring of research programmes, which provides an independent opinion on the stage reached in, and the quality of, the implementation of our programmes, we have developed several measures aimed at improvement: an analysis of research management practices within the context of national and European Union programmes, with a view to exchanges of good practices and the promotion of mutual learning; the financing of studies aimed at assessing the socio-economic impact of the framework programme and the launching of pilot schemes aimed at evaluating the impact of completed projects, as you have, moreover, just emp ...[+++]hasised in speaking of the need to gauge this impact.

It will include a proposal on general food law which will embody the principles of food safety such as responsibility of feed manufacturers, farmers and food operators, traceability of feed, food and ingredients, proper risk analysis through, for instance, risk assessment – that is, scientific advice and information analysis – risk management – that is, regulation and control – risk communication, and application of the precautionary principle if and when appropriate.

This also means that data gathering, analysis, enforcement, and management has to be decentralized to correspond to the scale of the ecological information gathered.