Memo: Reform of the EU Statutory Audit Market – Frequently Asked Questions (updated version)

On 17 December 2013, the European Parliament and the Member States reached a preliminary agreement on the proposal for a Directive amending the Statutory Audit Directive and the proposal for a Regulation on specific requirements regarding statutory audit of public-interest entities. The compromise agreement was endorsed by the Member States at the COREPER meeting of 18 December 2013 and adopted by the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament on 21 January 2014.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Commissioner Michel Barnier welcomes provisional agreement in trilogue on the reform of the audit sector http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-commissioner-michel-barnier-welcomes-provisional-agreement-in-trilogue-on-the-reform-of-the-audit-sector/

ESO: Background information: Statement by Vice-President Reding and Commissioner Barnier on European Parliament's vote to approve criminal sanctions for market abuse directive http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-statement-by-vice-president-reding-and-commissioner-barnier-on-european-parliaments-vote-to-approve-criminal-sanctions-for-market-abuse-directive/

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