Press Release: Commission and European Federation of Accountants co-host Public Sector Accounting Conference

The European Commission and European Federation of Accountants (FEE) are jointly organising, on 28 September 2006 in the building of the European Parliament in Brussels, a one-day conference “Modernising accounting in the Public Sector – Exchange of Experience”. The conference will discuss the public sector’s progress in implementing accrual accounting. Among prominent speakers are: EU Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget Dalia Grybauskaite, president of the FEE David Devlin and Brian Gray, the European Commission’s Accountant and Deputy Director General of DG Budget. A specific press briefing for attending journalists will be organised half-way through the conference to enable them to put questions to key delegates from the Commission, the FEE and the International Public Sector’s Accounting Standards Board.