EU aid misspent on golf clubs

The European Court of Auditors' 2006 Annual Report on the spending of the EU budget, published 14 November 2007, identifies some improvements, particularly in agricultural spending, although errors of legality and regularity still persist in the majority of EU expenditure due to weaknesses in internal control systems both at the Commission and in Member States

European Court of Auditors: ECA/07/30: Speech by Mr. Hubert Weber: President of the European Court of Auditors Presentation of the 2006 Annual Report to the ECOFIN Council http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=ECA/07/30&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Court of Auditors: ECA/07/28: The European Court of Auditors' 2006 Annual Report identifies some improvements, particularly in agricultural spending, although errors of legality and regularity still persist in the majority of EU expenditure due to weaknesses in internal control systems both at the Commission and in Member States http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=ECA/07/28&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: Press Release: IP/07/1675: Auditors' annual verdict on EU accounts and payments maps the road ahead for the Commission http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/1675&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: SPEECH/07/710: Siim Kallas, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud European Court of Auditors' Report on the 2006 financial year, ECOFIN, Brussels, 13 November 2007 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/07/710&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

BBC News, 13.11.07: EU accounts failed for 13th year http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7092102.stm

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