Translation of "Audit Progress Committee " (English → French) :

But when I look back over these two years I see that we have kept promises to establish, for the first time ever, an independent, professionally led and staffed internal audit service, a central finance service, audit capabilities in every directorate-general, an audit progress committee that bears comparison with any comparable mechanism in the private or public sector anywhere in the European Union.

8. Notes that the Commission has responded to Parliament's call for a systematic follow-up and review of recommendations following internal and external audits by setting up an Audit Progress committee, chaired by the Commissioner responsible for Budgets; calls on the Commission to provide a detailed mandate and to submit a summary on a quarterly basis of planned and completed tasks, starting from March 2001; regrets that this could not be done sooner; calls on the Commission to delegate follow-up to special Court of Auditors reports to the individual Commissioner responsible; requests that the Commission's Audit Progress Committee f ...[+++]ollows up Parliament's discharge recommendations pertinent to its mandate;

The appointment of Mr Muis as the Head of the Internal Audit Service comes the day after the first meeting of the Audit Progress Committee.

Finally, it has approved the Charter of the Audit Progress Committee (APC), whose task it will be to ensure that recommendations of the IAS are effectively implemented.

The Charter of the Audit Progress Committee of the European Commission sets out the role of the APC as being to assist the College in ensuring that the work of the IAS is properly taken into account by Commission services and receives appropriate follow-up.

Creation of an Internal Audit Service, an Audit Progress Committee and a Central Financial Service.