§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what arrangements are made for ensuring that there are no defalcations in the expenditure of EEC funds within individual member States of the Community.
§ Mr. NottArrangements for dealing with irregularities in expenditure from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund are set out in Articles 8 and 9 of EEC Council Regulation No. 729/70 (Official Journal No. L94/13 of 28th April 1970) on the financing of the common agricultural policy and in EEC Council Regulation No. 283/72 of 7th February 1972 (Official Journal No. L36/1 of 10th February 1972) concerning irregularities and the recovery of sums wrongly paid in connection with the financing of the common agricultural policy. Similar arrangements are made in respect of expenditure from the European Social Fund under EEC Council Regulation No. 858/72 of 24th April 1972 (Official Journal No. L101 of 28th April 1972).