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Document 92001E000570

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0570/01 by Christopher Heaton-Harris (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Statement of Assurance for DG Transport and Energy.

IO C 261E, 18.9.2001, pp. 147–148 (ES, DA, DE, EL, EN, FR, IT, NL, PT, FI, SV)

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Date of document:
27/02/2001; Dáta tarchurtha
Date of dispatch:
27/02/2001
Date of reply:
11/04/2001; Freagra comhpháirteach i scríbhinn
Author:
Parlaimint na hEorpa, Not available
Form:
Ceist scríofa
Addressee:
An Coimisiún Eorpach
Parliamentary term:
An cúigiú téarma
Political group:
Páirtí an Phobail Eorpaigh

92001E0570

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0570/01 by Christopher Heaton-Harris (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Statement of Assurance for DG Transport and Energy.

Official Journal 261 E , 18/09/2001 P. 0147 - 0148


WRITTEN QUESTION E-0570/01

by Christopher Heaton-Harris (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(27 February 2001)

Subject: Statement of Assurance for DG Transport and Energy

At the meeting of the Committee on Budgetary Control of 7 February 2001, Commissioner Fischler stated that the exact error rate in 1999 for financial transactions within DG Agriculture was 3,06 %.

In the spirit of cooperation and transparency between the European institutions, could the Commissioner with special responsibility for Transport and Energy provide a similar figure for financial transactions within that Directorate-General? If not, why not?

Joint answer to Written Questions P-0553/01, E-0554/01, E-0555/01, E-0556/01, E-0557/01, E-0558/01, E-0559/01, E-0560/01, E-0561/01, E-0562/01, E-0563/01, E-0564/01, E-0565/01, E-0566/01, E-0567/01, E-0568/01, E-0569/01 and E-0570/01 given by Mrs Schreyer on behalf of the Commission

(11 April 2001)

The Commission wishes to remind the Honourable Member that the Court of Auditors does not provide an error rate in the framework of its Statement of Assurance for the general budget as it considers that it is an oversimplification to gauge the success of the Commission's financial management on the basis of this single indicator.

Thus the Court decided three years ago to stop the publication of a global error rate and to develop its Statement of Assurance methodology in order to provide to the Discharge Authority with more detailed descriptive information.

Moreover, the Court of Auditors has said on several occasions that if it was to generate error rates at a lower level (eg. by sector or by Directorate general) from a general error rate, these would be wholly misleading. The restricted number of transactions that the Court audits does not make it possible for it to determine a valid error rate at this lower level.

Consequently, the Commission is not in a position to provide to the Honourable Member the requested information.

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