on-the-spot check

His on-the-spot check showed the depth to be thirty feet.

Every installation is supposed to have an on-the-spot check at least every year.

We hope it can bring the question of on-the-spot checks to a conclusion before the end of the year.

It intends to monitor the situation in the Member States, including the use of on-the-spot checks.

However, in this context, the Commission cannot impose financial audits or on-the-spot checks on third countries without their agreement.

Your rapporteur quite rightly remarks that in 1998 the Commission did not carry out enough on-the-spot checks.

We for our part will and do verify that each Member State has set up a reliable system of on-the-spot checks.

It is crucial to have on-the-spot checks.

Thirdly, I understand and endorse your wish to see the Commission devote more resources to on-the-spot checks.

The information contained in these reports is combined with the results of on-the-spot checks performed by veterinary experts in the Member States.

As you know, on-the-spot checks now fall within the remit of each Member State, which is obliged to report back to the Commission at regular intervals.

First, Mrs Theato is to be congratulated for the clarity and constructiveness of her report on on-the-spot checks to combat fraud.

This requires proof of origin, certificates and checks by the appropriate teams of inspectors, and in some cases on-the-spot checks or analyses are also necessary.

To make a proper check I'd have to get accurate and localised storm centre reports and then make on-the-spot checks of sea water samples in the same zones.

The subject of my report on behalf of the Committee on Budgetary Control on on-the-spot checks and inspections goes back to March 1994.

A constable was left behind to watch over the two bodies, which would be picked up later when the C.I.D. from Inverness had made their usual on-the-spot checks.

Our Directorate-General is now responsible for carrying out on-the-spot checks of Cohesion Fund measures but also of all the actions cofinanced under the Structural Funds.

Another point concerns on-the-spot checks of compliance with the conditions which are sometimes attached to the decision to grant state aids. Such checks are carried out, for example on shipyards.

May I remind honourable Members that we now have in the on-the-spot checks regulation the possibility of checking that measures by Member States to protect the budget are equivalent.

The verification system also contains legal provisions that enables on-the-spot checks to be carried out when there is reason to suspect that there has been a breach of the treaty.

Turning now to enforcement and monitoring methods, the Commission's veterinary experts from the Food and Veterinary Service have carried out on-the-spot checks in all the Member States.

A first step in the right direction was Regulation 2988/95 which entered into force in December 1995. However, to a large extent the question of on-the-spot checks by the Commission remained open.

So my party is unequivocal is supporting this motion, namely an arms embargo, which must also involve on-the-spot checks to ensure that weapons are not reaching Burundi by more obscure routes.

Suppose that the Council Regulation enters into force and UCLAF carries out on-the-spot checks and inspections in various Member States on the transactions of various companies.

This is a transparent, irrefutable form of inspection: there is clearly no possibility of error, and the system is certainly less costly than permanent on-the-spot checks, especially in a fairly extensive area such as NAFO.