21/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - According to the Spanish press, the OLAF report on the flax affair indicates that the responsibility and the competence for carrying out controls and verifications of activities that give rise to the levying of direct aid (like that for flax) belong in the context of the common agricultural policy in Spain, exclusively to the administrations of the autonomous communities (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.12). The report, moreover, stresses that OLAF is responsible for...