Plant Variety Office: internal audit and control, access to documents

2002/0174(CNS)
PURPOSE : to enable the Community Plant Variety Office to have control and audit systems comparable with those of the Community institutions and to bring it into line with the New Financial Regulation of June 2002 as well as with the Regulation relating to the access to public documents of May 2001. LEGISLATIVE ACT : Council Regulation 1650/2003/EC amending Regulation 2100/94/EC on Community plant variety rights. CONTENT : this Regulation aims to amend Regulation 2100/94/EC as regards the budgetary and financial rules applicable to the Community Plant Variety Office, in order to bring it into line with the new general Financial Regulation that entered into force on 1 January 2003, and also as regards access to its documents, with a view to implementing within the Office Regulation 1049/2001/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents. ENTRY INTO FORCE : 01/10/2003.�