Translation of "à des fins comptables " (French → English) :

3. The accounting information given in the annual report shall be prepared in accordance with the accounting standards of the home Member State of the AIF or in accordance with the accounting standards of the third country where the AIF is established and with the accounting rules laid down in the AIF rules or instruments of incorporation.

7. Congratulates the Agency on its considerable progress in this respect; acknowledges that all ‘very important’ recommendations issued by the IAS to the Agency were adequately implemented and closed, except the recommendation on validation of accounting systems, which was downgraded to ‘important’ as a result of its partial implementation; calls, accordingly, on the accounting officer of the Agency to describe the methodology used in the validation of its accounting system; supports the idea of developing cooperation within the existing Inter-Agency Accountants Network in order to come up with common requirements and develop a common ...[+++] methodology for validation of the accounting systems in agencies;

7. Congratulates the Agency on its considerable progress in this respect; acknowledges that all "very important" recommendations issued by the IAS to the Agency were adequately implemented and closed, except the recommendation on validation of accounting systems, which was downgraded to "important" as a result of its partial implementation; calls, accordingly, on the accounting officer of the Agency to describe the methodology used in the validation of its accounting system; supports the idea of developing cooperation within the existing Inter-Agency Accountants Network in order to come up with common requirements and develop a common ...[+++] methodology for validation of the accounting systems in agencies;

1. Reminds the Commission that, while a coherent and harmonised accounting system in the European Union facilitates trade within the internal market, micro-entities are excessively burdened by existing accounting rules; that those companies may, for example, be small retailers or handicraft businesses; that, where those undertakings are active mainly within one Member State at local or regional level, they have no cross-border impact on the internal market or on competition within the EU; and that Member States should therefore have the option of fully or partly exempting those companies from statutory accounting obligations;

‘(5a) By way of derogation from the provisions of paragraphs 3 and 4, Member States may, in accordance with international accounting standards as adopted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1725/2003 of 29 September 2003 adopting certain international accounting standards in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council , as amended until 5 September 2006, permit or require valuation of financial instruments, together with the associated disclosure requirements which are provided for in international accounting standards adopted in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 of the European Parl ...[+++]iament and of the Council of 19 July 2002 on the application of international accounting standards

For the purpose of this Regulation, “international accounting standards” shall mean International Accounting Standards (IAS) and related Interpretations (SIC interpretations) issued by the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) listed in the Annex to this Regulation, subsequent amendments to those standards and related interpretations, future standards and related interpretations to be produced by the IASC as well as equivalent accounting standards, which are standards that ensure a high degree of transparency and comparability of financial reporting and are as close as possible to International Accounting Standards.