L 162/20 Official Journal of the European Union 14.6.2006 COMMISSION DECISION of 20 January 2006 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Decision 2004/904/EC as regards Member States management and control systems, and rules for the administrative and financial management of projects co-financed by the European Refugee Fund (notified under document number C(2006) 51/3) (Only the Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Swedish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovakian, Slovenian and Spanish texts are authentic) (2006401 [EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (4 To ensure uniform treatment of the declarations of expen- Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Decision 2004/904/EC of 2 December 2004 establishing the European Refugee Fund for the period 2005 to 2010 (Y), and in particular Article 13, paragraph 5 thereof, Whereas: (1) To ensure sound financial management of the assistance granted from the European Refugee Fund (the Fund), com- mon guidelines should be adopted for the organisation of the tasks of the authorities responsible for implementing co-financed actions. (2)  To ensure that the Community funds are utilised in accor- dance with the principles of sound financial management, management and control systems should be introduced that provide a sufficient audit trail, and lend the Commis- sion any assistance it requires to carry out checks, espe- cially sample checks. (3)  To ensure that Community funds are used efficiently and appropriately, uniform criteria should be established for the checks carried out by the Member States under Article 25 of Decision 2004/904/EC. diture for which assistance is requested from the Fund under Article 24 of Decision 2004/904/EC, a model dec- laration of expenditure should be produced. (5)  In accordance with Article 3 of the Protocol on the posi- tion of the United Kingdom and Ireland, annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Community, the United Kingdom takes part in Decision 2004/904/EC and by consequence in this present decision. (6)  In accordance with Article 3 of the Protocol on the posi- tion of the United Kingdom and Ireland, annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Ireland takes part in Decision in 2004/904/EC and by consequence in this present decison. (7)  Inaccordance with Articles 1 and 2 of the Protocol on the position of Denmark, annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Com- munity, Denmark does not take part in Decision 2004/904/EC and is not bound by it nor by this present decision. (8)  The measures provided for in this Decision are in accor- dance with the opinion of the Committee established by Article 11 of Decision 2004/904/EC, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: CHAPTER I SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS Article 1 This Decision lays down the detailed rules for implementing Deci- sion 2004/904/EC as regards management and control systems and rules for the administrative and financial management for funding granted from the European Refugee Fund ‘the Fund’ and managed by the Member States. () OJ L 381, 28.12.2004, p. 52. Article 2 For the purposes of this Decision the following definition shall be used: 1. ‘Responsible Authority”: any functional body of the Member State or national public body designated by a Member State under Article 13, paragraph 1 of Decision 2004/904/EC.