In adopting the report by Mrs Maria BERGER (PSE, A), the European Parliament approved the
Commission proposal with amendments. The amendments adopted stressed, in particular, with
regard to the good repute of the persons concerned, the need to underline the importance of
combating fraud in the Community transit procedure and the transport of live animals and, in
assessing whether there was evidence of repeated minor offences, to take into account the number
of journeys carried out by the undertaking concerned. Parliament also improved the text by rendering
the good repute requirement for natural persons more stringent: under Parliament's amendment, this
requirement would not be satisfied not only if natural persons had been convicted of one serious
criminal offence (which prevents them from working as hauliers) but also if they had been convicted
of certain repeated minor offences, including offences under the Community transit procedure and
in connection with the transport of live animals. Another amendment specified the knowledge which
the persons concerned must possess. (They must have a thorough knowledge of the Community and
common transit procedure and the procedure under the TIR Convention in all their details; be
familiar with computer systems relating to the transit procedure and, as soon as the transit procedure
based on paper documentation is replaced by procedures based on new technologies, have a thorough
knowledge of these in all their details; be familiar with anti-fraud measures in the field of the transit
procedure; be familiar with all fraud-related provisions of the administrative, civil and criminal law
of the Member State of origin; be familiar with the role and function of the UCLAF.)�