Internal and External Audit of the EU Funded Programmes and Projects - Montesquieu Instituut

Target group

Beneficiaries eligible under Structural Funds, Cohesion Fund and IPA (national and regional), Managing Authorities, Certifying Authorities and Audit Authorities, Intermediate Bodies, as well as independent auditors and junior auditors dealing with or interested in EU funded project and programmes and consulting companies specialised in audit of the EU Funds or programmes and projects.

Description

In the current programming period 2007 - 2013, the effective control systems and audit of the EU Funds began one of the key issues in the framework of the whole architecture of the implementation of the EU Cohesion Policy. The administrations on national, regional and local levels have more responsibilities to build an effective control system and to assure a proper spending of public money then in previous financial perspectives.

The seminar will focus not only on the EU structural and cohesion funds, but as well on pre - accession instrument IPA. Apart from the presentation of the relevant legislation, methods of increasing efficiency of control and audits, seminar will provide know-how on combating fraud and preventing irregularities, public procurement and State Aid.

The unique feature of this seminar is that it covers the experience of internal and external audit experts coming from public sector, EU Commission, as well as the European Court of Auditors and the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).

Learning methodology

Apart from traditional training methods (lectures and presentations, including concrete examples and case studies), the interactive approach will be applied. There will be discussions in question and answer sessions after each practical part. Participants will work in small working groups on concrete practical exercises - case studies with direct involvement of experts.

Objectives

The goal of this three days practical seminar / workshop is to give to participants the whole overview and detailed understanding of practical aspects of control (external and internal) and audit of the EU Funds in the programming period 2007 - 2013.

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