The national accreditation body established pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 should be empowered to accredit and issue an authoritative statement concerning the competence of a verifier to perform the verification activities pursuant to this Regulation, adopt administrative measures and carry out the surveillance of verifiers.

7. Where the Competent Body has received evidence, other than by means of a written supervision report of the Accreditation or Licensing Body, that activities of the environmental verifier were not performed adequately enough to ensure that the requirements of this Regulation are met by the organisation, it shall consult the Accreditation or Licensing Body supervising the environmental verifier.

The Commission shall attest to the competence of the auditor unless if, within one month of notification, any of the participating carriers object to the capability of the auditor to carry out the tasks as required under this Article.

18. Recalls that monitoring and evaluation are basic and recurrent tasks of public administrations and that their systematic externalisation is incomprehensible and undesirable; stresses that, where the European Institutions feel that evaluations carried out by national and Community administrations, as well as by internal and external auditors, need to be supplemented by an external evaluation, the evaluation body must be selected on the basis of its skills and of its independence vis-à-vis the programme or the actions being evaluated; calls upon the Commission, therefore, to phase out any "framework" contract concluded with external ...[+++]bodies for the evaluation of the current programmes and to refrain from hiring any external body on a repeated basis for the purpose of evaluation; urges the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to refrain from hiring, for evaluation purposes, any external body that has had a previous contractual relationship with the Commission for the designing, monitoring or evaluating of actions or measures involved in these programmes;

18. Recalls that monitoring and evaluation are basic and recurrent tasks of public administrations and that their systematic externalisation is incomprehensible and undesirable; stresses that, where the European Institutions feel that evaluations carried out by national and Community administrations, as well as by internal and external auditors, need to be supplemented by an external evaluation, the evaluation body must be selected on the basis of its skills and of its independence vis-à-vis the programme or the actions being evaluated; calls upon the Commission, therefore, to phase out any "framework" contract concluded with external ...[+++]bodies for the evaluation of the current programmes and to refrain from hiring any external body on a repeated basis for the purpose of evaluation; urges the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to refrain from hiring, for evaluation purposes, any external body that has had a previous contractual relationship with the Commission for the designing, monitoring or evaluating of actions or measures involved in these programmes;

Stresses that, where the European Institutions feel that evaluations carried out by national and Community administrations, as well as by internal and external auditors, need to be supplemented by an external evaluation, the evaluation body must be selected on the basis of its skills and of its independence vis-à-vis the programme or the actions being evaluated.