Report on Member States’ replies to the European Court of Auditors’ 2015 annual report

When the European Court of Auditors published its 2015 Annual report on 13 October 2016, the Commission in accordance with the Financial Regulation immediately informed Member States of the details of the report which relate to the management of funds for which they are responsible.

Member States were also invited to reply to a questionnaire focusing on three main themes:
(1) regularity of transactions in the major EU spending areas in shared management with a particular focus on root causes of errors;
(2) performance of the EU budget highlighting on the one hand links between EU priorities in the context of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and national priorities, and, on the other hand performance at project level in shared management;
(3) follow-up of the Court's recommendations to Member States.

This report provides a summary of the Member States' replies. It is accompanied by a Staff Working Document which presents the Member States' replies in more detail.

ECA: Annual reports concerning the financial year 2015 http://www.eca.europa.eu/en/Pages/DocItem.aspx?did=37912

EUR-Lex: SWD(2017)101: Commission Staff Working Document accompanying the report http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD:2017:101:FIN

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