The monitoring system will need to be based on existing information systems, data bases and scientific know-how and form a knowledge base providing data for future actions and ensuring that they are coherent.

Subject: Legal basis of the proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 4045/89 on scrutiny by Member States of transactions forming part of the system of financing by the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund - COM(2001) 663 - C5-0647/2001 - 0264/2001(CNS)

Subject: Legal basis of the proposal for a Council decision approving, on behalf of the European Community, the Rotterdam convention on the prior informed consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade - COM(2001) 802

1. Where a Member State, as a result of new or additional information made available since the date of the consent and affecting the environmental risk assessment or reassessment of existing information on the basis of new or additional scientific knowledge, has detailed grounds for considering that a GMO as or in a product which has been properly notified and has received written consent under this Directive constitutes a risk to human health or the environment, that Member State may provisionally restrict or prohibit the use and/or sale of that GMO as or in a product on its territory.

1. Where a Member State, as a result of new or additional information made available since the date of the consent and affecting the environmental risk assessment or reassessment of existing information on the basis of new or additional scientific knowledge, has detailed grounds for considering that a GMO as or in a product which has been properly notified and has received written consent under this Directive constitutes a risk to human health or the environment, that Member State may provisionally restrict or prohibit the use and/or sale of that GMO as or in a product on its territory.

The system, which applied solely to husked rice, was designed to adjust duties by taking into account the actual price of imported consignments rather than the conventional system which is based on calculating flat-rate duties using a reference price (an average world-market price).