Official audit institutions hold conference
The Contact Committee of the Heads of Supreme Audit Institutions of the European Union and the European Court of Auditors (the Contact Committee) meets annually to give its members the opportunity to discuss relevant matters - focused around EU financial management issues - and to agree, as needed, on joint activities when this can achieve greater impact.
This year, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) is honoured to host and chair the meeting, which will be held on 15-17 October 2014. Representatives of the EU candidate countries (Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey), along with representatives of SIGMA, the INTOSAI Development Initiative and EUROSAI, have been invited to participate as active observers, as is the tradition.
This year the guest speaker is Igor Šoltes, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control of the European Parliament, who will address the challenges set in respect of enhancing cooperation between national SAIs and the ECA. Joaquim Nunes de Almeida, Director for Public Procurement of the Internal Market and Services Directorate-General at the European Commission, will contribute to the discussion on the first European Union anti-corruption report.
The main agenda themes are:
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-a seminar on enhancing cooperation between national SAIs and the ECA, notably on issues related to the Europe 2020 Strategy and the banking union
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-activities of the Contact Committee and its professional partners
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-EU-related audits by members of the Contact Committee
2014 Contact Committee Meeting: Focus on Co-Operation, by Vítor Caldeira, President of the ECA
15/10/2014