On Friday 4 May 2012 the European Court of Auditors received a visit from Mr Hiroyuki Shigematsu, the BoA President, and his delegation. The delegation, including H. E. Mr Takashi Suetsuna, the Japanese Ambassador to Luxembourg, was welcomed by ECA President Vítor Caldeira and ECA Member Gijs de Vries. The two delegations discussed among other the mandates of the ECA and the EU SAIs regarding audits of EU subsidies; fiscal discipline in the EU Member countries, including audit activities related to the European debt crisis; and the INTOSAI Working Group on Accountability and on the Audit of Disaster-related aid.
Photo: From left to right: ECA Member Gijs de Vries, the President of the Board of Audit of Japan Hiroyuki Shigematsu, ECA President Vítor Caldeira and the Japanese Ambassador to Luxembourg H. E. Mr Takashi Suetsuna
CRIS is the information system put in place by the Commission to support the management of external actions. CRIS enables all staff involved in external action management to work on a common database. It provides data concerning the different phases of management and feeds financial data into the Commission's accounting system ABAC. The Court found that CRIS is mostly effective in responding to the Commission's information needs in the field of external actions. However, after ten years of development, CRIS is still subject to persisting shortcomings. These concern in particular the definition of CRIS's role with regard to the Commission's accounting system, weaknesses in data coding, insufficient effectiveness in ensuring data integrity and, more generally, insufficient security of the system and its data. Press release
Hearing on "Future role of the European Court of Auditors: Challenges ahead and possible reform" organised by the Budgetary Control Committee of the European Parliament
Hearing of the nominee Members of the European Court of Auditors for Bulgaria, Ms Iliana Ivanova, and for Romania, Mr Mircea Vasile Popescu, in front of the Budgetary Control Committee of the European Parliament
