SPEECH/11/747 Mr. Rapporteur, President Caldeira, Honorable Members of this Committee and of the Court of Auditors, The Court of Auditors Annual Report on the financial year 2010 together with the Commission replies is the outcome of an intensive and …
EU Audit
Another clean bill of health for EU accounts; auditors find improvements in many payment areas
European Commission – Press release Brussels, 10 November 2011 – For the fourth year in a row, the EU’s annual accounts have received a clean bill of health from its external auditors. As for EU spending, the overall error rate is once again below 4%….
Annual report of the European Court of Auditors
MEMO/11/771 Brussels, 09 November 2011 What is the Court of Auditors’ annual report? The European Court of Auditors (ECA) is the independent external auditor of the European Union. Each year, the Court publishes an Annual Report on the implementation …
Taxation and Customs: Delivering to Member States, citizens and businesses post-2014
European Commission – Press release Brussels, 09 November 2011 – EU Customs and Taxation policy make a substantial contribution in helping to raise revenues for the EU and Member States’ budgets every year….
Q&A: FISCUS programme for taxation and customs 2014-20
MEMO/11/767 Brussels, 9 November 2011 What is FISCUS? FISCUS is the new financing programme covering EU customs and taxation for the period 2014-20, as foreseen within the Multi-Annual Financial Framework proposal adopted by the Commission in June (see…
Algirdas Šemeta EU Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud Post-ECOFIN Statement on Financial Transactions Tax ECOFIN Press Conference Brussels, 8 November 2011
SPEECH/11/729 Today I had the chance to personally present the Commission’s proposal for a Financial Transactions Tax to the EU’s Finance Ministers. The discussion that followed was extremely interesting – although it is no secret that more discussio…