Brussels, 03/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee (COCBU) unanimously approved the separation of the financial control and audit functions, and thus invited the Parliament to give its assents, during the plenary session presently underway, to this first part of the revision of the financial regulation. The Van Hulten report (ESP, Netherlands) approved the Commission proposal, while adding some comments. The EPP-DE group, which had submitted an...