Translation of "calcul des erreurs " (French → English) :

3. Considers it noteworthy in this context, that the chapter Rural development, environment, fisheries and health appears with the highest error rate in the report of the Court for 2012 with 7, 9% against 4,8% in average; observes that the Court refers in its report only to one project related to the LIFE+ programme and to the internal control system of DG SANCO; is very much concerned, taking into account Commission's replies, as the error rate accounts for all policy areas; notices that there are different views between the Court of Auditors and the Commission with regard to the way in which errors should be calculated; underst ...[+++]ands that, unlike the Commission services, the Court quantifies a 100 per cent error rate of a project even if the error is solely administrative or only one part of the project amount is effected;

24. Observes that there are some differences of views between the Court of Auditors and the Commission with regard to the way in which errors should be calculated, in particular as to whether pre-financing should be included or excluded, as to the handling of quantifiable and non-quantifiable errors and as to the way in which recoveries and financial corrections should be considered in the overall assessment of the financial impact of errors and the corrective capacity of systems; is of the opinion that the different approaches mirror the different roles respectively played by the institutions, ...[+++]namely the role of auditor on the one hand and manager on the other; requests that the Court of Auditors consider the possibility of separating these contested different categories of error rates in its next annual report and to qualify the recovery and financial corrections policies/results per sector;

21. Notices that there are some differences of views between the Court of Auditors and the Commission with regard to the way in which errors should be calculated, in particular as to whether pre-financing should be included or excluded, as to the handling of quantifiable and non-quantifiable errors and as to the way in which recoveries and financial corrections should be considered in the overall assessment of the financial impact of errors and the corrective capacity of systems; is of the opinion that the different approaches mirror the different roles respectively played by the institutions, n ...[+++]amely the role of auditor on the one hand and manager on the other; requests that the Court of Auditors consider the possibility of separating these contested different categories of error rates in its next annual report and to qualify the recovery and financial corrections policies/results per sector;

83. Recalls that the European Court of Auditors has for many years reported that payments in the area of cohesion are affected by an error rate exceeding 5%, but notes that this fell from 11% for the last discharge procedure as shown by the ECA Annual Report, and that the supervisory and control systems are only partially effective; calls in addition for clarification on the method of calculating errors, as discrepancies in figures provided by the European Court of Auditors and by the Commission lead to confusion and to mistrust of official figures;

With knowledge of the power levels of current imaging products and the meters available, manufacturers can calculate the maximum error based on the reading and the range utilised for the reading.

The differences in totals have been used to calculate a relative error, which amounts to an acceptable 0.39 %.