E. whereas, in its 'Reporting Directives for the Creditor Reporting System' (DCD/DAC (2002)21), the OECD/DAC defines ODA as financial flows to countries on the DAC List of ODA Recipients for which, inter alia, 'each transaction is administered with the promotion of the economic development and welfare of developing countries as its main objective' ,

E. whereas, in its 'Reporting Directives for the Creditor Reporting System' (DCD/DAC(2002)21), the OECD/DAC defines ODA as financial flows to countries on the DAC list of ODA recipients for which, inter alia, "each transaction is administered with the promotion of the economic development and welfare of developing countries as its main objective",

The Commission will take measures to ensure that Member States are equipped with national systems for registering bank accounts allowing holders to be identified and facilitating investigations into bank accounts and movements of funds.

The registries system keeps track of the ownership of allowances in the same way as a banking system keeps track of the ownership of money.

before the 2001 crisis the Commission did not subject the arrangements for prevention and control of the disease to adequate evaluation that took account of the changes in the risk factors; as the Commission did not carry out comprehensive evaluations and inspections in time, a number of weaknesses in the prevention and control arrangements concerning protective measures at borders, animal feed, animal movements and notification of the disease were not corrected before the outbreak of the epidemic; during the crisis the Commission rapidly took the necessary emergency measures, such as notification of the disease to the Member States, ...[+++]surveillance and slaughter of sheep which had been imported from the United Kingdom before the crisis began, and the closure of markets; the shortcomings in the system and in its application in the Member States in respect of the number of vets, notification of the disease and the speed at which culling was carried out were identified by the Commission during the crisis but it was too late to remedy them; the way in which the Community financing system was applied during the crisis led to inconsistencies: the reimbursement rates for the various animal diseases have been aligned only for the pig sector; there were delays in reimbursements to Member States; during the crisis, in the absence of a more clearly defined Community framework, the Member States were able to introduce a variety of systems to compensate farmers, based on varying methods of assessing the value of the animals before slaughter; after the crisis many shortcomings were remedied; nevertheless, the financial framework has not been revised and a number of Community measures are still inadequate with regard to the supervision of farms, notification of disease and speed in culling; these could compromise the effectiveness of the prevention and control arrangements in containing a future epidemic, while the Community would be obliged to reimburse the expenditure ...

Furthermore, in the context of the third money laundering directive, the Commission will propose that Member States should be required to have systems allowing holders of bank accounts to be identified and facilitating investigations into bank accounts and movements of funds.