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2006 discharge: EC general budget, Section III, Commission

2007/2037(DEC)

2006 DISCHARGE – COMMISSION: WORKING DOCUMENT FROM THE COMMISSION ON INTERNAL AUDITS: FOLLOWING UP THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION

This Commission working document aims to complement the report by the Internal Audit Services (IAS) – 2006, presented in parallel (refer to the summary of the document COM(2007)0280).

The report consists of a technical annex containing a synthesis of audits carried out by the IAS in 2006. The document offers a series of analytical tables on the audits of the Directorate-General (DG) of the Commission and on the recommendations made to improve its governance.

32 internal audit structures at the Commission are presented according to the following framework:

  • ADMIN: Human Resources Management (I and II)
  • COMM: Follow-up of 2003 in-depth audit
  • DIGIT: Data Centre-Operations and Security
  • EPSO: Selection process as managed by EPSO
  • OPOCE: Follow-up of 2004 in-depth audit
  • PMO: Regularity of financial management, implementation of financial circuits
  • SCIC: Financial management and procurement
  • ADMIN, SG, BUDG, SANCO, TREN, COMP: SPP/ABM cycle in the Commission
  • SG, MARKT, ENTR, ENV, TREN: Overview report: Monitoring the implementation of EC law
  • JLS: Large IT project management
  • MARKT: Local IT
  • SANCO: IT management
  • TAXUD: Large IT systems
  • COMM: Contract management
  • EAC: Implementation of ABAC
  • ENTR: Financial management of the IRC network
  • ENV: Follow-up in-depth audit
  • INFSO: Follow-up of 2004 in-depth audit
  • JRC: Interim follow-up audit report
  • RTD: Ex-post controls
  • AGRI, EMPL, FISH, REGIO: General report Structural Funds
  • REGIO ERDF
  • FISH: Follow-up of 2004 in-depth report
  • REGIO: Financial corrections in Cohesion Fund
  • AIDCO: Interim follow-up audit report
  • AIDCO, ECHO: Implementation of framework agreement with UN agencies, combined with ECHO monitoring and management reporting system
  • ELARG: Ex-post control activities
  • RELEX: Ex-post control activities and follow-up note

Level of acceptation of the recommendations and viewpoints of the audited entities: the document indicates that in 2006 the level of acceptation of audit recommendations from the IAS to audited entities rose to 89.4%; 7.9% of proposed recommendations were rejected and 2.7% were awaiting a response.