Translation of "audit and ethics branch " (English → French) :

3. In order to assist the Audit Committee to carry out its assessment of the overall adequacy of the compliance framework of the ECB, the ESCB, the Eurosystem and the SSM, and of the effectiveness of the processes for monitoring compliance, the Ethics Committee shall report to the Audit Committee on the advice it has provided and the extent to which this advice has been implemented.

The mandates of the Ethics Committee members who are also members of the Audit Committee shall expire if they cease to be members of the Audit Committee.

2. In the case of a statutory audit of consolidated accounts, the Member State requiring the statutory audit of the consolidated accounts may not impose additional requirements in relation to the statutory audit concerning registration, quality assurance review, auditing standards, professional ethics and independence on a statutory auditor or audit firm carrying out a statutory audit of a subsidiary established in another Member State.

2. In the case of a statutory audit of consolidated financial statements, the Member State requiring that statutory audit may not impose additional requirements in relation to the statutory audit concerning registration, quality assurance review, auditing standards, professional ethics and independence on a statutory auditor or an audit firm carrying out a statutory audit of a subsidiary established in another Member State.

2. In the case of a statutory audit of consolidated accounts, the Member State requiring the statutory audit of the consolidated accounts may not impose additional requirements in relation to the statutory audit concerning registration, quality assurance review, auditing standards, professional ethics and independence on a statutory auditor or audit firm carrying out a statutory audit of a subsidiary established in another Member State.

Basically, these initiatives consist in: modernising the Eighth Company Law Directive; strengthening the regulatory framework in the European Union; reinforcing at Community level public oversight of the audit profession; imposing the use of International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) for statutory audits in the European Union as of 2005; improving the systems of disciplinary sanctions; establishing the transparency of audit firms and networks of such firms; as regards corporate governance, reinforcing audit committees and internal control; strengthening auditor independence and introducing a code of ...[+++]ethics; facilitating the establishment of audit firms and examining auditor liability.