The Commission will adopt the approach which has long since been advocated by Parliament, which Mr Karlsson has also
outlined once again just now and which I also anno
unced in my written answers to parliamentary questions in August. This consists of devolving responsibility for financial control to the departments in charge of the spending programmes, thus decent
ralising and at the same time increasing the level of financial respon
...[+++]sibility in the administrative departments which effect the expenditure.