Article 79 Programming 1. Member States shall draw up programmes for scrutiny to be carried out pursuant to Article 75 during the subsequent scrutiny period. 2. Each year, before 15 April, Member States shall send the Commission their programme as referred to in paragraph 1 and shall specify: the number of undertakings to be scrutinised and breakdown by sector on the basis of the amounts relating to them; the criteria adopted for drawing up the programme. 3. The programmes established by the Member States and forwarded to the Commission shall be implemented by the Member States, if, within eight weeks, the Commission has not made known its comments. 4. Paragraph 3 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the amendments to the programme made by the Member States. 5. At any stage, the Commission may request the inclusion of a particular category of undertaking in the programme of a Member States. 6. Undertakings for the sum of the receipts or payments amounted to less than EUR 40 000 shall be scrutinised in accordance with this Chapter only for specific reasons to be indicated by the Member States in their annual programme referred to in paragraph 1 or by the Commission in any proposed amendment to that programme. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 101 amending the threshold set out in the first subparagraph. Article 80 Special departments 1. In each Member State, a special department shall be responsible for monitoring the application of this Chapter. Those departments shall, in particular, be responsible for: the performance of the scrutiny provided for in this Chapter by officials employed directly by that special department; or the coordination and general surveillance of the scrutiny carried out by officials belonging to departments. Member States may also provide that scrutiny to be carried out pursuant to this Chapter is allocated between the special departments and other national departments, provided that the former is responsible for its coordination. 2. The department or departments responsible for the application of this Chapter shall be organised in such a way as to be independent of the departments or branches of departments responsible for the payments and the scrutiny checks carried out prior to payment. 3. The special department referred to in paragraph 1 shall take all the measures necessary, and it shall be entrusted by the Member State concerned with all the powers necessary, to perform the tasks referred to in this Chapter.
Article 79 Programming 1. Member States shall draw up programmes for scrutiny to be carried out pursuant to Article 75 during the subsequent scrutiny period. 2. Each year, before 15 April, Member States shall send the Commission their programme as referred to in paragraph 1 and shall specify: the number of undertakings to be scrutinised and breakdown by sector on the basis of the amounts relating to them; the criteria adopted for drawing up the programme. 3. The programmes established by the Member States and forwarded to the Commission shall be implemented by the Member States, if, within eight weeks, the Commission has not made known its comments. 4. Paragraph 3 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the amendments to the programme made by the Member States. 5. At any stage, the Commission may request the inclusion of a particular category of undertaking in the programme of a Member States. 6. Undertakings for the sum of the receipts or payments amounted to less than EUR 40 000 shall be scrutinised in accordance with this Chapter only for specific reasons to be indicated by the Member States in their annual programme referred to in paragraph 1 or by the Commission in any proposed amendment to that programme. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 101 amending the threshold set out in the first subparagraph. Article 80 Special departments 1. In each Member State, a special department shall be responsible for monitoring the application of this Chapter. Those departments shall, in particular, be responsible for: the performance of the scrutiny provided for in this Chapter by officials employed directly by that special department; or the coordination and general surveillance of the scrutiny carried out by officials belonging to departments. Member States may also provide that scrutiny to be carried out pursuant to this Chapter is allocated between the special departments and other national departments, provided that the former is responsible for its coordination. 2. The department or departments responsible for the application of this Chapter shall be organised in such a way as to be independent of the departments or branches of departments responsible for the payments and the scrutiny checks carried out prior to payment. 3. The special department referred to in paragraph 1 shall take all the measures necessary, and it shall be entrusted by the Member State concerned with all the powers necessary, to perform the tasks referred to in this Chapter.
COM_COM(2018)0393_EN.docx