3. The Paying Agency shall scrutinize the aid applications on the basis of the payment files and other available information, paying particular attention to the documents relating to the export and the comments of the competent control authorities and shall check whether the animal passports have been surrendered in accordance with paragraph 2.

In addition to the complete annual visit, the inspection body or authority must make targeted visits based on a general evaluation of the potential risks of non-compliance with this Regulation; the inspection body or authority shall pay particular attention to the critical control points pointed out for the operator, with a view to establishing whether the surveillance and checking operations are carried out as they should be.

Moreover, at this time when globalization has tended to favour control over knowledge and science by certain financial concerns, the structure we envisage would allow for such knowledge and technology to be shared on a more communitarian basis, one that greater reflects the Canadian polity's vision of both society and Canada's role in the world.

As regards public internal financial control (PIFC), Croatia has not yet set up a comprehensive control structure based on managerial accountability and functionally independent internal audit.

- MEDICINAL PLANT PREPARATIONS "THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Whereas, in its Resolution of 30 November 1995 on the integration of health protection requirements in Community policies, the Council considers that the Community must pay particular attention to the impact on health of action proposed in a number of areas, including free movement of goods; Whereas action to improve understanding of and address the effects on human health of the free movement of goods, in particular the free movement of medicinal products, should form part of the Community's overall strate ...[+++]gy for action in the field of public health; Considering the wider use of medicinal plants in medical treatment in the European Union; Considering the growing use of medicinal plants in the European Union; Considering the impact of medicinal plant preparations on public health and the recommendations of the World Health Organization; Considering the heterogeneity of the commercial presentation of those preparations on the market; Whereas the safeguarding of public health must be a priority objective at Community level; Whereas it is also necessary to pay appropriate attention to conditions which will ensure that the development of industry and the free movement of such products within the European Union are not hindered; Considering the specific problems involved in checking raw materials and medicinal plant preparations from third countries in order to guarantee their quality; Whereas it is appropriate to take into account the special characteristics of such preparations; Whereas it is necessary to guarantee the protection of consumers' health throughout the whole process of manufacture, distribution and putting up for sale, CALLS ON the Commission, in close cooperation with the Member States, to study the situation that exists and, in particular: - whether there are public health concerns over medicinal plant preparations ...

Background Information A priority cooperation with Russia In its Communication of 7 September 1994 on the illicit traffic of nuclear materials, the Commission had drawn the attention of the Council and the European Parliament to the advisability of establishing co-operation with the Federation of Russia in the field of nuclear safeguards and informed of its Decision to include "in the TACIS programme a project aimed at helping to establish more reliable safeguards systems, with the technical support of the Joint Research Centre.