Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC)
Date: 2005-02-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, accession to the European Union, derogation from EU law, household income, living conditions, statistical method

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 

Brussels 04.05.2005 
COM(2005) 28 final/2 

2005/0004 (COD) 

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Proposal for a 

REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL 

amending Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 concerning Community statistics on income 
and living conditions (EU-SILC) 

(presented by the Commission) 

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

BACKGROUND AND BRIEF HISTORY  

On 16 June 2003, the European Parliament and the Council adopted Regulation (EC) 
No  1177/2003  concerning  Community  Statistics  on  Income  and  Living  Conditions 
(EU-SILC), which was subsequently published in the Official Journal of the EU on 
3 July 2003. Under this Regulation, the EU-SILC project will be launched in 2004 or 
in 2005 in all EU Member States, in Iceland and Norway. 

The  aim  of  this  Regulation  is  to  establish  a  common  framework  for  the  systematic 
production  of  Community  statistics  on  Income  and  Living  Conditions  (EU-SILC). 
EU-SILC is to become the reference source of comparative statistics on income. 

Because the new SILC project is a source for key socio-economic indicators and is to 
be used by the Council and the Commission in the fight against poverty and social 
exclusion  in  the  EU,  it  must  meet  high  statistical  quality  standards,  mainly  a  high 
response rate, a low error rate and full geographical coverage. 

POLICY CONTEXT 

The SILC project is also to be launched in the ten new Member States. However, it 
appears that all these new Member States, with the exception of Estonia, need more 
time  to  adapt  their  systems  to  the  harmonised  methods  and  definitions  used  to 
compile Community statistics. The sample sizes for these countries also need to be 
defined. 

OBJECTIVE OF THIS NEW REGULATION 

The proposed Regulation of the European Parliament and  of  the Council amending 
Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003: 

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introduces a derogation in Article 4 to allow all the new Member States except 
Estonia to launch the SILC project in 2005; 

specifies in Article 13 that the EU financial contribution for Estonia will not be 
for the first four years of data collection but for four years from 2005; 

defines  in  Annex  the  minimum  effective  sample  size  for  each  of  the  ten  new 
Member States. 

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS 

The  proposed  Regulation  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  has  a 
financial  implication  for  the  Commission.  The  EU  contribution  for  the  first  four 
years  of  data  collection  of  the  SILC  information  in  the  old  EU  Member  States,  in 
Iceland and Norway amounted to €38 650 000. It amounts to €9 556 000 for the new 
Member States. 

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NEXT STEPS 

The  proposed  Regulation  will  be  submitted  to  the  European  Parliament  and  the 
Council for their consideration. 

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2005/0004(COD) 

Proposal for a 

REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL 

amending Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 concerning Community statistics on income 
and living conditions (EU-SILC) 

(Text with EEA relevance) 

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 
285 thereof, 

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,1 

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty,2 

Whereas: 

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(2) 

(3) 

Regulation  (EC)  No  1177/2003  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  of 
16 June  2003  concerning  Community  statistics  on  income  and  living  conditions 
(EU-SILC)3  establishes  a  common  framework  for  the  systematic  production  of 
Community statistics on income and living conditions encompassing comparable and 
timely  cross-sectional  and  longitudinal  data  on  income  and  on  the  level  and 
composition of poverty and social exclusion at national and European levels. 

As  a  result  of  the  accession  of  new  Member  States  to  the  European  Union  on 
1 May 2004,  there  is  a  need  to  enlarge  Annex  II  to  Regulation  (EC)  No  1177/2003, 
since that Annex sets out for each Member State the minimum effective sample sizes 
required under the EU-SILC scheme. 

Furthermore,  it  appears  that  most  of  the  new  Member  States,  and  several  of  the 
existing Member States, need additional time to adapt their systems to the harmonised 
methods and definitions used to compile Community statistics. 

(4) 

Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly, 

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Opinion of the European Parliament of 14 May 2002 (not yet published in the Official Journal), Council 
Common  Position  of  6  March  2003  (OJ  C  107  E,  6.5.2003,  p.  26)  and  Decision  of  the  European 
Parliament of 13 May 2003 (not yet published in the Official Journal). 
OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 1. 

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HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

Article 1 

Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 is amended as follows: 

(1) 

In Article 4, paragraph (2) is replaced by the following: 

“2.  By  way  of  derogation  from  paragraph  1,  Czech  Republic,  Germany,  Cyprus,  Latvia, 
Lithuania,  Hungary,  Malta,  Netherlands,  Poland,  Slovenia,  Slovakia  and  United  Kingdom 
may start the annual cross-sectional and longitudinal data collection in 2005. 

This  authorisation  is  subject  to  the  condition  that  those  Member  States  shall  supply 
comparable data for the year 2004 for the cross-sectional common European Union indicators 
which  have  been  adopted  by  the  Council  before  1  January  2003  in  the  context  of  the  open 
method of coordination and which can be derived on the basis of the EU-SILC instrument.” 

(2) 

In Article 13, the following paragraphs 4 and 5 are added: 

“4.  By  way  of  derogation  from  paragraph  1,  Estonia  shall  receive  a  financial  contribution 
from  the  Community  towards  the  cost  of  the  work  involved  for  the  four  years  of  data 
collection from 2005. 

5. The financing for the year 2007 shall still be ensured by a future Community programme.” 

(3) 

Annex II is replaced by the text shown in the Annex to this Regulation. 

Article 2 

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in 
the Official Journal of the European Union. 

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. 

Done at Brussels,  

For the European Parliament 
The President 

For the Council 
The President 

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ANNEX 

“ANNEX II 

Minimum effective sample sizes 

Households 

Persons aged 16 or over to 
be interviewed 

cross-
sectional 
1 

4 750
4 750
4 250
8 250
3 500
4 750
6 500
7 250
3 750
7 250
3 250
3 750
4 000
3 250
4 750
3 000
5 000
4 500
6 000
4 500
3 750
4 250
4 000
4 500
7 500
121 000
2 250
3 750
127 000

longitudinal 

2 

3 500
3 500
3 250
6 000
2 750
3 500
5 000
5 500
2 750
5 500
2 500
2 750
3 000
2 500
3 500
2 250
3 750
3 250
4 500
3 250
2 750
3 250
3 000
3 500
5 750
90 750
1 700
2 750
95 200

cross-
sectional 
3 

8 750 
10 000 
7 250 
14 500 
7 750 
10 000 
16 000 
13 500 
8 000 
15 500 
7 500 
7 650 
9 000 
6 500 
10 250 
7 000 
8 750 
8 750 
15 000 
10 500 
9 000 
11 000 
6 750 
7 500 
13 750 
250 150 
3 750 
6 250 
260 150 

longitudinal 

4 

6 500
7 500
5 500
10 500
5 750
7 250
12 250
10 250
6 000
11 750
5 500
5 600
6 750
5 000
7 750
5 250
6 500
6 250
11 250
7 500
6 750
8 250
5 000
5 750
10 500
186 850
2 800
4 650
194 300

EU Member States 
Belgium 
Czech Republic 
Denmark 
Germany 
Estonia 
Greece 
Spain 
France 
Ireland 
Italy 
Cyprus 
Latvia 
Lithuania 
Luxembourg 
Hungary 
Malta 
Netherlands 
Austria 
Poland 
Portugal 
Slovenia 
Slovakia 
Finland 
Sweden 
United Kingdom 
Total of EU Member States 
Iceland 
Norway 
Total including Iceland and 
Norway 

NB: 

The  reference  is  to  the  effective  sample  size,  which  is  the  size  required  if  the  survey  were 
based  on  simple  random  sampling  (design  effect  in  relation  to  the  ‘risk  of  poverty  rate’ 
variable  =  1.0).  The  actual  sample  sizes  will  have  to  be  larger  to  the  extent  that  the  design 
effects exceed 1.0 and to compensate for all kinds of non-response. Furthermore, the sample 
size  refers  to  the  number  of  valid  households  which  are  households  for  which,  and  for  all 
members  of  which,  all  or  nearly  all  the  required  information  has  been  obtained.” 

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LEGISLATIVE FINANCIAL STATEMENT 

Policy area(s): Statistics 

Activity(ies): Social Statistics 

TITLE OF ACTION: EU-SILC (COMMUNITY STATISTICS ON INCOME AND LIVING CONDITIONS) 

1. 

BUDGET LINE(S) + HEADING(S) 

29 02 01: Politique d’informations statistiques 

04 04 02 02: Actions visant à combattre et à prévenir l’exclusion sociale 

2. 

OVERALL FIGURES 

2.1. 

Total allocation for action (Operational part): €46 982 000 for commitment for 
EU-25 

2.2. 

Period of application: 2003 - 2007 

2.3. 

Overall multi-annual estimate of expenditure 

(a) 

Schedule  of  commitment  appropriations/payment  appropriations 
intervention) (see point 6.1.1) 

(financial 

Commitments 
Payments 

2003 
6,423 
1,927 

2004 
2006 
2005 
12,057  11,681  11,692 
10,255  11,797 
6,185 

2007 
5,127 
9,718 

€ Million 
2009 

2008 

5,560 

1,538 

Total 
46,980 
46,980 

(b) 

Overall financial impact of human resources and other administrative expenditure 

Commitments/ 
payments 

TOTAL a+b 

Commitments 
Payments 

1,080 

1,080 

1,080 

1,080 

€ Million 

4,320 

€ Million 

7,503 
3,007 

13,137  12,761  12,772 
11,335  12,877 
7,265 

5,127 
9,718 

5,560 

1,538 

51,300 
51,300 

2.4. 

Compatibility with financial programming and financial perspective 

Proposal compatible with the existing financial programming 2000-2006 

2.5. 

Financial impact on revenue 

No financial implications (involves technical aspects regarding implementation of a 
measure) 

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BUDGET CHARACTERISTICS 

Type of expenditure 

New 

EFTA 
participation

Participation 
applicant 
countries 

Non-comp 

Diff 

YES 

YES 

NO 

Heading 
Financial 
Perspective 

Non-comp 

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LEGAL BASIS 

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Articles 285, 136, and 137 of the Amsterdam Treaty establishing the European 
Community 

Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics 

Proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the 
Community Statistical Programme 2003 to 2007 (COM(2001) 683 final) 

Decision  No  50/2002/EC  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  of 
7 December 2001 establishing a programme of Community action to encourage 
cooperation between Member States to combat social exclusion 

Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council 
of  16  June  2003  concerning  Community  statistics  on  income  and  living 
conditions (EU-SILC) 

5. 

DESCRIPTION AND GROUNDS 

5.1. 

Need for Community intervention 

5.1.1.  Objectives pursued 

The  general  objective  of  EU-SILC  (Community  Statistics  on  Income  and  Living 
Conditions)  is  to  produce  timely  and  comparable  cross-sectional  and  longitudinal 
data on income and on the level and composition of poverty and social exclusion at 
national and EU levels. 

The  high  priority  given  by  the  Council  and  the  Commission  to  the  fight  against 
poverty and social exclusion in the EU requires comparable and timely statistics to 
monitor this process. 

5.1.2.  Measures taken in connection with ex ante evaluation 

The EU-SILC project was launched in 2003 on the basis of a general agreement and 
in 2004-2005 under the Framework Regulation in place of the European Community 
Household Panel (ECHP) survey that ran for the 1994-2001 period. 

In 1999, the Directors of Social Statistics of the National Statistical Institutes decided 
to stop the ECHP project in 2001. This decision was taken in view of both the need 
to  update  the  content  according  to  the  new  political  demands,  and  the  request  for 
operational improvement, i.e. mainly the timeliness of the data produced. 

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In 2000, the Directors of Social Statistics supported the introduction of a legal act for 
EU-SILC.  The  draft  of  the  related  Framework  Regulation  was  then  presented  and 
amended following decisions taken during the meetings of the Statistical Programme 
Committee  (SPC)  on  30/05/01  and  of  the  Directors  of  Social  Statistics  on 
11-12/06/01. 

The  total  costs  for  the  collection  of  the  EU-SILC  data  will  be  around  €47  million 
over  a  five-year  period.  Fifty-five  percent  of  the  data  collection  costs  will  be 
supported  by  the  Commission  for  the  first  four year of the project in each country, 
since it is a new project. Depending on the country between 37% and two-thirds of 
the data collection will be given to the countries. 

The  yearly  data  collection  costs  for  the  ECHP  project  were  lower  (€10  million). 
However, the Commission was not financing more than half of the costs. 

EU-SILC evaluation 

It is planned to carry out a regular evaluation of the EU-SILC project: 

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Annual intermediate quality reports relating to the common cross-sectional EU 
indicators, as well as annual final quality reports covering both cross-sectional 
and  longitudinal  components  of  EU-SILC  and  focusing  on  the  internal 
accuracy,  will  be  produced  by  each  Member  State  as  well  as  by  Iceland  and 
Norway. 

The  Commission  will  produce  annual  comparative  intermediate  and  final 
quality reports on the basis of the reports mentioned above. 

From  2004  on,  the  Commission  will  organise  methodological  studies  to 
estimate the impact on comparability of the national data sources used and to 
identify best practices to be followed. 

In  addition,  no  later  than  31  December  2007,  the  Commission  will  submit  a 
report  to  the  European  Parliament  and  the  Council  on  the  work  done  in  the 
preceding years under the Regulation. 

5.2. 

Action envisaged and budget intervention arrangements 

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target  population(s):  Community  policies,  national  governments, 

The 
businesses, universities, research organisations, and the general public. 

The  concrete  measures  to  be  taken  to  implement  the  action:  launching  of 
household/individual  surveys  in  all  EU  Member  States  and  Iceland  and 
Norway, combined with register information in some countries. 

On  average,  the  countries  will  support  45%  of  the  costs,  but  country 
contributions will vary from 33.3% to 63%. 

The immediate outputs of each action: annual production of survey (combined 
with register) data. 

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The  expected  outcomes  solving  needs  or  problems:  annual  production  of 
comparable  and  timely  data  on  income  and  on  the  level  and  composition  of 
poverty and social exclusion for the EU as a whole and for each EU Member 
State as well as for Iceland and Norway. 

5.3.  Methods of implementation 

Method  used  to  implement  the  planned  actions:  direct  management  by  the 
Commission using either regular or outside staff. 

6. 

FINANCIAL IMPACT 

6.1. 

Total financial impact on Part B - (over the entire programming period) 

6.1.1.  Financial intervention 

Eurostat 29 02 01 
EMPL 04 04 02 02 
TOTAL 

2003 

3,2115 
3,2115 
6,423 

2004 

6,0285 
6,0285 
12,057 

2005 

5,8405 
5,8405 
11,681 

 € Million 
2007 

2,5635 
2,56354 
5,127 

2006 

5,846 
5,846 
11,692 

National shares of the Community funds will be allocated among EU and EEA countries as 
follows: 

Belgium 

Czech Republic 

Denmark 

Germany 

Estonia 

Greece 

Spain 

France 

Ireland 

Italy 

Cyprus 

Latvia 

Lithuania 

Luxembourg 

€

2003 

2004 

2005 

2006 

2007 

TOTAL 

571 441 

567 841 

567 841 

567 841 

2 274 964 

351 825 

351 825 

351 825 

351 825 

1 407 300 

261 651 

261 651 

261 651 

261 651 

1 046 604 

1 133 175 1 133 175  1 133 175  1 133 175  4 532 700 

181 787 

160 616 

162 471 

164 325 

669 199 

277 783 

277 783 

277 783 

277 783 

820 691 

820 691 

820 691 

820 691 

874 964 

1 065 150 1 065 150  1 065 150 

619 800 

619 800 

619 800 

619 800 

1 005 563 1 005 563 1 005 563  1 005 563 

1 111 132 

3 282 764 

4 070 414 

2 479 200 

4 022 252 

236 000 

206 000 

213 667 

221 533 

877 200 

112 171 

121 486 

126 153 

136 218 

496 028 

149 172 

151 144 

161 327 

173 333 

634 976 

475 800 

475 800 

475 800 

475 800 

1 903 200 

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Hungary 

Malta 

Netherlands 

Austria 

Poland 

Portugal 

Slovenia 

Slovakia 

Finland 

Sweden 

274 985 

284 041 

292 302 

309 398 

1 160 726 

198 204 

209 635 

213 192 

216 819 

837 850 

502 365 

502 365 

502 365 

502 365 

2 009 460 

664 781 

664 781 

664 781 

664 781 

2 659 124 

463 813 

355 422 

329 567 

319 245 

1 468 047 

220 339 

253 672 

253 672 

253 672 

981 355 

282 879 

287 227 

292 859 

298 491 

1 161 456 

282 167 

185 553 

185 553 

188 167 

841 440 

295 000 

295 000 

295 000 

295 000 

335 367 

335 367 

335 367 

335 367 

1 180 000 

1 341 468 

United Kingdom 

1 245 296 1 089 101  1 084 789  1 112 500  4 531 686 

TOTAL EU25 

6 423 180 12 056 938 11 680 689 11 692 344  5 127394  46 980 545

Iceland  

Norway 

6.2. 

65 481 

68 835 

74 025 

74 025 

235 372 

235 372 

235 372 

235 372 

282 366 

941 488 

Calculation  of  costs  by  measure  envisaged  in  Part  B  (over  the  entire 
programming period)5 

Commitments in € million 

Breakdown  

Type  
of outputs 
(projects, 
files ) 

1 

Number of outputs 

(total for years 1…n)  

Average 
unit cost 

2 

3 

79,864 € 
per 
household 

Total cost 

(total for 
years 2003-
2007) 

4=(2X3) 

40,571 
million € 

Action 1 

-  Data  collection  for 
the 
cross-sectional 
component 

-  Additional 
collection 
for 
longitudinal 
component 1 

data 
the 

TOTAL COST 

- 2004: 65 250 households 

Data 

- 2005: 127 000 households 

- 2006: 127 000 households 

- 2007: 127 000 households 

-2008: 61 750 households 

Data 

- 2004: 10 000 households 

- 2005: 21 500 households 

- 2006: 21 500 households 

- 2007: 21 500 households 

- 2008: 5 750 households 

79,864 € 
per 
household 

6,409 
million € 

46,980 
million € 2 

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1  In  most  countries,  the  cross-sectional  and  longitudinal  components  will  be  combined  into 
one operation; in a few countries, two separate operations will be carried out: the additional 
number  of  households  corresponding  to  the  additional  data  collection  for  the  longitudinal 
component will be around 20.000 households. 
2 €38 686 million will be borne by countries 

7. 

IMPACT ON STAFF AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURE  

7.1. 

Impact on human resources 

Types of posts 

Staff to be assigned to management 
of the action using existing 
resources 

Number of 
permanent posts 

Number of 
temporary posts 

Total 

Description of tasks deriving 
from the action 

A 
B 
C 

Permanent 
officials or 
Temporary 
staff 
Other human 
resources 
Total 

2 
2 
1 

5 

2 
3 

5 

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7.2. 

Overall financial impact of human resources 

Type of human resources 

Amount € 

Method of calculation *  

Officials 
Temporary staff 

Other human resources 

540 000 
540 000 

5*108 000 € per year 
5*108 000 € per year 

(give budget line)

Total

1 080 000 

The amounts are the total expenditure for twelve months. 

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7.3. 

Other administrative expenditure deriving from the action 

Amount € 

Method of calculation 

Budget line 
(number and heading) 
Overall allocation (Title A7) 
A0701 – Missions 
A07030 – Meetings 
A07031 – Compulsory committees6 
A07032 – Non-compulsory committees4 
A07040 – Conferences 
A0705 – Studies and consultations 
… Other expenditure (state which) 
Information systems (A-5001/A-4300) 

Other expenditure - Part A (state which) 

The amounts are the total expenditure for twelve months. 

Total

I. 

II. 

Annual total (7.2 + 7.3) 

Duration of action 

III. 

Total cost of action (I x II) 

7.4. 

Allocation 

1 080 000 € 

4 Years 

4 320 000 € 

The  need  for  human  and  administrative  resources  shall  be  covered  within  the 
allocation  granted  to  the  managing  DG  in  the  framework  of  the  annual  allocation 
procedure. 

8. 

FOLLOW-UP AND EVALUATION 

8.1. 

Follow-up arrangements 

Implementation  of  the  EU-SILC  project  will  be  handled  by  comitology  procedure. 
Commission  Regulations  will  be  developed  in  relation  to  the  list  of  variables  to  be 
included  in  EU-SILC:  the  updated  definitions,  the  sampling  and  tracing  and 
fieldwork aspects including imputation, and the content of  the quality reports to be 
transmitted by Member States as well as by Iceland and Norway to Eurostat. 

8.2. 

Arrangements and schedule for the planned evaluation 

The main instruments used for the evaluation of the EU-SILC project are the annual 
intermediate  quality  reports  relating  to  the  common  cross-sectional  EU  indicators 
and  the  annual  quality  reports  covering  both  cross-sectional  and  longitudinal 
components of EU-SILC. The latter will also focus on the internal accuracy produced 

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by each country, as well as the report produced no later than 31 December 2007 by 
the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the work done in the 
preceding years under the Regulation. 

In addition,  rolling  reviews  will be  used for the evaluation of  the  EU-SILC  project 
during its implementation. 

User  surveys  will  be  carried  out  in  order  to  give  a  clear  picture  of  strengths  and 
weaknesses.  These  evaluation  activities  will  take  place  in  the  context  of  Eurostat's 
Corporate Plan. 

9. 

ANTI-FRAUD MEASURES 

A revised system of internal management and control was put in place following the 
Commission's  Reform  initiative  on  financial  management.  This  system  included  a 
reinforced internal audit capability. 

Annual  monitoring  of  progress  with  implementation  of  the  Commission's  Internal 
Control Standards is designed to give assurance on the existence and functioning of 
procedures for the prevention and detection of fraud and irregularities. 

New  rules  and  procedures  have  been  adopted  for  the  principal  budgetary  process: 
calls  for  tenders,  grants,  commitments,  contracts  and  payments.  The  manual  of 
procedures  is  made  available  to  everyone  involved  in  financial  acts  with  a  view  to 
clarifying responsibilities, simplifying workflows and indicating key control points. 
Training  on  their  use  is  provided.  The  manuals  are  subject  to  regular  review  and 
updating. 

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