Expenditure by the Commission
Article 76
1. The Commission may incur expenditure for activities contributing to the aims of this Regulation including the organisation of the following: (a) development of a harmonised system, including an appropriate database, for gathering and storing all information concerning active substances, safeners, synergists, co-formulants, plant protection products and adjuvants and for making such information available to the Member States, producers and other interested parties; (b) performance of studies needed to prepare and develop further legislation on the placing on the market and use of plant protection products and adjuvants; (c) performance of studies needed to harmonise procedures, decision-making criteria and data requirements; (d) coordination, if necessary by electronic means, of cooperation between Member States, the Commission and the Authority and measures to facilitate work sharing; (e) development and maintenance of a coordinated electronic submission and evaluation system aimed at promoting electronic document exchange and work sharing between the applicants, the Member States, the Commission and the Authority; (f) development of guidance to facilitate the day-to-day application of this Regulation; (g) travel and subsistence expenses that Member States’ experts incur as a result of the Commission appointing them to assist its experts in the framework of control activities laid down under Article 68; (h) training of control staff; (i) financing of other measures needed to ensure application of the Regulation adopted under Article 68. 2. The appropriations required under paragraph 1 shall be subject to authorisation by the budgetary authority each financial year.