(91a) In order to ensure the necessary input and better involvement of Member States when the Commission exercises its implementing powers with a regard to this Regulation in certain particularly sensitive policy areas relating to the ESI Funds and in order to strengthen the Member States' role in adopting uniform conditions in such areas or other executive measures with substantial implications or with a potentially significant impact on either the national economy, the national budget or on the proper functioning of the public administration of the Member States, the implementing acts relating to the methodology for providing information on the support for climate change objectives, the arrangements to ensure a consistent approach for det ...[+++]ermining in the performance framework the milestones and targets for each priority and for assessing the attainment of the milestones and targets, the nomenclature, based on which the categories of intervention are to be defined concerning the priority axis in operational programmes, the technical characteristics of information and communication measures for the operation and instructions for creating the emblem and the definition of its standard colours, the model to be used when submitting the financial data to the Commission for monitoring purposes as well as the models for payment applications and for the accounts, the format for notification of the refusal by the Commission of any financial contribution to a major project, the terms and conditions of the electronic data exchange to be established for official exchanges of information between the Member States and the Commission, including the information concerning Member States' responsibilities, the model for the report and the opinion of the independent audit body in connection with the designation procedures of the managing authorities and, where appropriate, of the certifying authorities, the technical specifications of the management and control system, the detailed arr ...

The Competent Bodies are recommended to take into account the implementation of recognised environmental management schemes, such as EMAS or ISO 14001, when assessing applications and monitoring compliance with the criteria (note: it is not required to implement such management schemes).

The Competent Bodies are recommended to take into account the implementation of recognised environmental management schemes, such as EMAS or ISO 14001, and Environmental Product Declarations when assessing applications and monitoring compliance with the criteria (note: it is not required to implement these declarations and management schemes).

Secondly, support should also be given to the European Parliament amendments aimed at extending the competencies of the European Railway Agency, especially as regards issuing permits for the use of rolling stock that complies with the Technical Standard for Interoperability (TSI), making the Agency the central development body for introducing the European Rail Traffic Management System, and thirdly, giving the Agency the task of running the mandatory certification system as regards the maintenance of railway wagons and other rolling s ...[+++]tock.

The competent bodies are recommended to take into account the implementation of recognised environmental management schemes, such as EMAS or ISO 14001, when assessing applications and monitoring compliance with the criteria (Note: it is not required to implement such management schemes).

The competent bodies are recommended to take into account the implementation of recognised environmental management schemes, such as EMAS or ISO 14001, when assessing applications and monitoring compliance with the criteria (note: it is not required to implement such management schemes).