Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council under Article 213 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 on the Accounting Officer and Internal Auditor of the European External Action Service (EEAS)

The European External Action Service (EEAS) was established in 2010 by Council Decision 2010/427 pursuant to Article 27(3) of the Treaty on European Union. The Decision provides that "unnecessary duplication of tasks, functions and resources with other structures should be avoided".

Against this background, the accounting officer and the internal auditor of the Commission have acted, respectively, as accounting officer and internal auditor of the EEAS. The legal bases for this arrangement are Articles 68(1) and 98(2) of the Financial Regulation.

The Commission has assessed the functioning of the system under which the accounting officer and the internal auditor of the Commission act, respectively, as accounting officer and internal auditor of the EEAS. This report, on which the EEAS has been consulted, presents the results of this assessment with the conclusion of continuing the current arrangements.

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