1. The Member State shall in the first instance bear the responsibility for investigating irregularities, acting upon evidence of any major change affecting the nature of the conditions for the implementation or control of operations or the operational programme and making the financial corrections required.

1. The Member States shall in the first instance bear the responsibility for investigating irregularities, acting upon evidence of any major change affecting the nature or the conditions for the implementation or control of operations or operational programmes and making the financial corrections required.

1. Processors who undertake processing operations throughout the wine year and who wish to receive aid under Article 35(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 shall submit a schedule to the competent authority of the Member State in which processing takes place before the beginning of the wine year or, where they are manufacturing grape juice for the first time, before beginning such manufacture. The schedule shall include at least the following information:

An initial examination of this interesting report has led the Group to the following two conclusions: - On the scope of the operation to be carried out, all representatives could agree, on a minimal simplification process involving deletion of all obsolete provisions and the renumbering of Articles.

First, the authors of the report analyze recent economic developments which make necessary improved cooperation between competition authorities; they thus considered that: - with the positive conclusion of the Uruguay Round leading to a progressive reduction of state-imposed trade barriers, the risk exists that these barriers will be replaced by other obstacles to international trade resulting from the behaviour of countries, e.g. setting up cartels, whose members divide world markets (in this way, each company assures the protection of its traditional national market), partitioning distribution networks of large, global companies along ...[+++] national borders, etc. Such behaviour, if widespread, would compromise the expected benefits of liberalized international trade in terms of growth and employment; - there is a growing contradiction between the increasing internationalization of economic activity and the limited territorial control exercised by national competition authorities (or by a "regional" authority such as the Commission).

The first phase of the operation is divided into two separate parts: 1. The first involves research into economically viable ways of eliminating the cadmium from the rock and/or the acid and carrying out test borings in the new sections of the deposits now being worked.