EAGGF Guarantee section: scrutiny by the member states of transactions (amend. Regul. 4045/89/EEC)

Parliament approved the Commission proposal subject to four amendments which aimed to: - establish time periods, to be specified by the Member States, in which the documents located outside Community territory should be made available to the officials responsible for the scrutiny; The Commission accepted this amendment. - reduce from six months to three the time-limit for the Member State where the undertaking was established to act upon the requests for scrutiny from the Member State where the payment took place; - remove the reference in Article 21(2) to the fact that Commission officials could not, on their own initiative, exercise powers conferred on national officials; The Commission did not accept this amendment. - strengthen in the first subparagraph of Article 21(3) the ability of the "requesting" Member State to participate in scrutinies carried out in the Member State where the undertaking was established; The Commission accepted this amendment. �