While it is the responsibility of the Member States to adopt their scrutiny programmes, it is necessary for those programmes to be communicated to the Commission so that it can assume its supervisory and coordinating role, in order to ensure that the programmes are adopted on the basis of appropriate criteria and to guarantee that the scrutiny is concentrated on sectors or undertakings where the risk of fraud is high.
Cé gurb iad na Ballstáit atá freagrach as a gcláir ghrinnscrúdaithe a ghlacadh, ní mór na cláir sin a chur in iúl don Choimisiún ionas gur féidir leis a ról maoirseachta agus comhordúcháin a ghlacadh chuige féin, chun a áirithiú go nglacfar na cláir ar bhonn critéar iomchuí agus chun a ráthú go mbeidh an grinnscrúdú dírithe ar earnálacha nó ar ghnóthais ina mbeidh baol mór calaoise.