24. Is deeply concerned at the Court of Auditors’ finding that payments for the year 2009 in this policy group were affected by material error and that the supervisory and control systems were generally, at most, partially effective in ensuring the regularity of payments; deplores the finding of the Court of Auditors that, although the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) is, in principle, well designed, its effectiveness is adversely affected by inaccurate data in the database ...[+++]s, incomplete cross-checks or incorrect or incomplete follow-up of anomalies; calls on the Commission to closely monitor the effectiveness of the supervisory and control systems in place in Member States to ensure that information on the irregularity rate per Member State represents a true and fair view of the actual situation; calls on the Commission to address the weaknesses in the effectiveness of IACS;

The delay in destruction, caused by the difficulty in incinerating the quantities of rendered material produced under this scheme, increased the control risk, given that risk material had be kept in storage for a long period.

29. Notes that the Commission, in the light of the experiences with the breach of the ban on exports from the United Kingdom in the implementation of Directive 662/89, has still not submitted a proposal to the Council and the European Parliament for improvements to the monitoring system, which links checks in the country of origin with spot checks and physical checks at the frontiers and improved information to the authorities in the country of destination; draws attention, however, to the agreement by the President of the Commission, Mr Santer who has announced the submission of proposals on the monitoring system by February 1998 at th ...[+++]e latest;

-3- Harmonization to establish a network on a Community scale will concern: - specifics of the infrastructure and its equipment: track gauge, line profiles and in particular maximum gradients, the radii of curves, permitted axle weights, types of current for electric traction, the allotment of lines either for mixed traffic or for passenger traffic alone, and as a consequence the nature of the routes and feasible speeds; - traffic control systems which must be highly compatible if not unified, as much in terms of equipment as in the regulation of their use; - the definition of rolling stock specifically for the ser ...[+++]vices they will be used in, and for which they are ordered and constructed to individual specifications, whoever the owner and the operator may be; - development of industrial cooperation in equipment and stock.

For example, consider the brakes on the hoisting system that transports the miners underground and brings them back up to the surface, the gas-monitoring equipment and its potential for failure, and the process-control failures that could result in damage to the environment.

The German company Hartmann Braun also manufactures industrial process control equipment, in particular process control systems, instruments and process analysers.