Seminar on Internal and External Audit of the EU Funded Programmes and Projects

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).