The Council also requests Eurojust to consider the issue of statistics with a view to giving the budgetary authority and policy makers more detailed information about the full extent of national members’ involvement in judicial cooperation in Europe; Suggests Eurojust focus on complex cases which require coordination and to make internal periodical assessments on the case referrals from each country and on the quality of the cases handled with a view to improving the value of casework; invites Eurojust to ...[+++]report on such assessments to the Council as appropriate; Urges the Member States, mentioned in the 2004 Annual Report of Eurojust, that have yet to implement the Eurojust Decision to take all necessary measures to comply with it in order to provide all National Members with the necessary powers and means to perform their tasks effectively.

Annual reporting on results helps to strengthen domestic accountability, and the increasing use being made in EC budget support operations of countries' own regular reporting to Parliament aims to improve the quality and content of these reports, and thus to promote Parliamentary accountability of Government.

It recalls that, in accordance with the Essen European Council conclusions, Member States have drawn up reports on the measures taken at national level; - it calls on the Commission to supplement reporting legislation, as necessary, and periodically to reassess its incentive effect; - it calls for significant further efforts to improve the rate of recovery of sums wrongfully received as well as procedures to obtain reimbursement of sums involved in fraud and irregularity cases; - it considers that the strengthening of the Commission's resources within UCLAF should be reflected in an amalgamation of the budget appropriations earmarked ...[+++]for action against fraud; - it takes favourable note of the Commission's intention of submitting a vade mecum by the end of 1995 on the Community anti-fraud arrangements; - it welcomes the presentation of the work programme which is in line with the strategic programme and notes that the Commission will be putting forward its next work programme, for 1996, at the end of 1995 so that it can be submitted to the ECOFIN Council in January 1996.

The Council also wishes to receive regular reports on results and on measures taken, in order to bring such results into its legislative and budgetary proceedings in the most suitable manner.

Principles of sound financial management: Principles underlying the use of budget appropriations, including economy, cost-effectiveness, evaluation prior to mobilisation of Community resources, regular review of operations, etc.

That involves, inter alia: - the improvement of the functioning of the internal energy market, in particular the completion of the internal electricity and gas market; - respect for the general principles of competition and services of general economic interest, wherever they exist and according to the conditions laid down in the Treaty; - the definition of standardization programmes to promote energy efficiency and new and renewable sources of energy; - a consistent approach in the environmental field; - the development of trans-European networks; - the setting of energy priorities in future research programmes; - the establishment of a consistent approach as regards external relations; - the more coherent definition of programmes f ...[+++]or energy efficiency and new and renewable sources of energy to allow for more effective use of budgetary means, 4. considers that the common energy objectives identified in the Resolution on the Green Paper should be implemented at Community level and invites the Commission to put in place a process of cooperation between the Community and the Member States in order to ensure that Community and national energy policies are compatible with those objectives, 5. believes that Community energy decisions must be taken in the context of a shared analysis of the energy situation and of future trends and invites the Commission to organize cooperation between Member States on energy studies, as called for in the resolution on the Green Paper, 6. considers that the promotion of new and renewable energies and energy efficiency can make a valid contribution to a safer and healthier environment and, together with the development of indigenous sources, both reduce the Community's energy dependency on external sources and promote economic growth and employment, 7. believes that the opening up of the internal energy market and environmental issues related to energy require transparency of economic indicators and invites the Commission to report ...