3. The national accreditation body shall prepare its plan for the surveillance of each verifier in a manner that allows for representative samples of the scope of accreditation to be assessed, in accordance with the requirements laid down in the harmonised standard referred to in Annex III.

The Commission organised four working group meetings[5] and a revision workshop[6] with selected EMAS experts (EMAS verifiers, consultants, Accreditation Bodies and Competent Bodies).

Where oil stocks may be held in any location across the Community and by any central entity or service set up for that purpose, prohibiting their use for commercial purposes is sufficient to allow the various Member States concerned to make optimum use of national law to define the terms of reference for their central stockholding entities while easing the financial burden placed on final consumers as a result of such stockholding activities.

Where oil stocks may be held in any location across the Community and by any central entity or service set up for that purpose, Member States should be able to make optimum use of national law to define the terms of reference for their central stockholding entities and the conditions on which they delegate the holding of stocks to other Member States or other stockholding entities, while easing the financial burden placed on final consumers as a result of such stockholding activities.

It considered it preferable to start again from the beginning in considering all the outstanding issues, initiating a wide public debate and setting out, perhaps for the first time, a complete list of questions on all the issues involved directly or indirectly with the functioning of services of general interest as a whole, which include, according to the three-part distinction which has prevailed, network services of general economic interest, non-network services of general economic interest and the remaining services of general interest of a non-economic nature.

Public sector bodies should promote and encourage re-use of documents, including official texts of a legislative and administrative nature in those cases where the public sector body has the right to authorise their re-use.