43. Stresses the need for a comprehensive master plan setting out the overall objectives and architecture of the EU's border management strategy, including the details showing how all related programmes and schemes in this area can be better optimised; takes the view that, when considering the architecture of the EU's border management strategy, the Commission should analyse first of all the effectiveness of the existing border management systems of the Member States, in order to bring about the optimal synergies between them and provide additional information regarding the cost-effectiveness of the new proposed systems, Entry/Exit, Ele ...[+++]ctronic System of Travel Authorisation, Automated Border Control and the Registered Traveller Programme, within the framework of EU integrated border management;

43. Stresses the need for a comprehensive master plan setting out the overall objectives and architecture of the EU's border management strategy, including the details showing how all related programmes and schemes in this area can be better optimised; takes the view that, when considering the architecture of the EU's border management strategy, the Commission should analyse first of all the effectiveness of the existing border management systems of the Member States, in order to bring about the optimal synergies between them and provide additional information regarding the cost-effectiveness of the new proposed systems, Entry/Exit, Ele ...[+++]ctronic System of Travel Authorisation, Automated Border Control and the Registered Traveller Programme, within the framework of EU integrated border management;

19. Notes the Court of Auditors' request that the Commission be granted full access to information systems available or foreseen for all kinds of goods - not only for sensitive goods - for the purpose of operational and strategic analysis and risk management, while ensuring adequate protection of personal data ; notes that the Court of Auditors gives the examples of the NCTS, ECS (Export Control System), AIS (Automated Import System) and EMCS (Excise Movement and Control System);

19. Notes the Court of Auditors' request that the Commission be granted full access to information systems available or foreseen for all kinds of goods - not only for sensitive goods - for the purpose of operational and strategic analysis and risk management, while ensuring adequate protection of personal data ; notes that the Court of Auditors gives the examples of the NCTS, ECS (Export Control System), AIS (Automated Import System) and EMCS (Excise Movement and Control System);

19. Notes the European Court of Auditors' request that the Commission be granted full access to information systems available or foreseen for all kinds of goods - not only for sensitive goods - for the purpose of operational and strategic analysis and risk management, while ensuring adequate protection of personal data; notes that the Court gives the examples of the NCTS, ECS (Export Control System), AIS (Automated Import System) and EMCS (Excise Movement and Control System);

The adoption of this resolution is a response to the Commission's Communication to the European Parliament and the Council of 29 March 1995 on transit fraud, in which the Commission drew the attention of the European institutions to recent developments in fraud in the field of transit, to the importance of this question in terms of own resources and indirect taxation and to the need to strengthen the machinery of control and fraud-prevention in this area, in particular through the rapid implementation of an automated system for the management ...[+++]of these regimes.