Already in 2006, during the Contact Committee meeting in Warsaw, the Heads of SAIs of the EU and the European Court of Auditors (ECA) discussed possible solutions aimed at improving and strengthening their cooperation to make the accountability of EU funds more effective. At the meeting, a working group was established and entrusted with developing common auditing standards and comparable audit criteria based on internationally recognised standards tailored for the EU area.
At the beginning of May 2010, the group completed the works on the draft document on the application of INTOSAI standards in UE funds auditing. The draft is to be consulted on with all members of the working group, and then the Heads of European SAIs will present their comments. After the process of consultations is completed, the document will be presented at the Contact Committee meeting to be held in October 2010 in Luxembourg.
The document is to contribute to the improvement of EU funds auditing both at the national and Community level. It will provide European SAIs with useful guidelines on how to interpret and apply INTOSAI auditing standards in conducting their audits with regard to EU funds.
