Those adaptation costs may include costs related to interoperability of modules and other response capacities, autonomy, self-sufficiency, transportability, packaging and similar costs, as well as the costs of forming multinational response capacities (for example workshops, trainings, development of common methodologies, standards, procedures and similar activities), provided that those costs specifically relate to the capacities' participation in the voluntary pool.

For validation studies that are similar to previously validated methods and in respect of which a validation represents a significant competitive advantage, ECVAM should be able to collect charges from those who submit their methods for validation.

For validation studies that are similar to previously validated methods and in respect of which a validation represents a significant competitive advantage, ECVAM should be able to collect charges from those who submit their methods for validation.

Commission Directive 2002/26/EC of 13 March 2002 laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of ochratoxin A in foodstuffs (4), Commission Directive 2003/78/EC of 11 August 2003 laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of patulin in foodstuffs (5) and Commission Directive 2005/38/EC of 6 June 2005 laying down the sampling methods and the methods of ...[+++]analysis for the official control of the levels of Fusarium-toxins in foodstuffs (6) similarly establish sampling methods and performance criteria for ochratoxin A, patulin and Fusarium-toxins respectively.

As the Commission has suggested to the Laeken Council and to the European Parliament, other institutions should be encouraged to adopt similar new working methods. This should apply in particular to significant amendments of Commission proposals (see section 2.3 of the Better Regulation Action Plan, COM(2002)278).

Whereas adjustment of the potential and actual alcoholic strength of grape must and wines by the addition of sucrose of concentrated grape must or of rectified concentrated grape must is an oenological practice which is sometimes used fraudulently in that the approved limits are exceeded or the alcoholic strength of wine products which cannot legally by enriched is adjusted; whereas the analysis of wine or wine products by nuclear magnetic resonance of the deuterium in the ethyl alcohol contained in these products is a method of analysis recognized by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90 (4); whereas the application of this method of ...[+++] analysis can improve checks on the enrichment of wine products; whereas, in order to facilitate interpretation of the results obtained by this method of analysis and to make it more trustworthy, an analytical databank should be created to enable comparison of the results obtained by the above method of analysis and those obtained using the same method during previous analyses of products with similar physico-chemical characteristics as a result of their originating in the same or in a neighbouring area and of other conditions of production;