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.