1998 discharge: EC general budget

In line with Article 82 of the Financial Regulation, the Commission has drawn up the management account, the financial statement and the analysis of financial management of the European Community for the 1998 financial year, presented in 4 volumes. Following the controls carried out by the Commission services, some inaccuracies were discovered in the presentation of certain tables in volume IV of the management account. Given, on the one hand, that this volume is going to be published in the Official Journal and, on the other hand, that these errors will have consequences neither on the balance sheet for the year nor on the financial statement, the Commission proposes making the necessary amendments before its defininitve publication in the Official Journal. The updated version of this document shall, in fact, cancels and replaces volume IV, Sec(1999)0415). This procedure is in line with the proposal made by the Court of Auditors at meetings relating to the recasting of the Financial Regulation to produce the financial statements in a provisional form which shall be communicated to the Court and thereafter approved, once any possible amendments have been made.�