European Court of Auditors @EUAuditors@respublicae.eu

The proportion of 🇪🇺 freight transported by road (≈77%) is still rising📈

Efforts to move freight off the roads have not been effective in removing barriers that penalise other modes of transport.

🌱These issues need to be addressed if the EU wants to achieve its green goals.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1640368073680076800

Only 5⃣ days left to our conference on the Future of Official Statistics: Independence and accountability in the age of big data!

🗓️Tuesday 28 March
🕑15:00h

📲Tune in to check the full agenda and the livestream link.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1638925825696301057

🔴 Starting now!

📲 Follow live the ECA Award ceremony and conference: ‘Realising European added value and strengthening accountability in the 🇪🇺’.

Full agenda and livestream 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1638897044596183040

🎙️Follow live now the presentation of our Special Report on the use of #EUCohesion policy funds in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at @EP_BudgControl

📲Livestream: http://europa.eu/!Wytn99
📄Full report: http://europa.eu/!PYjrgT

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1638835525988786176

🎙️Follow live now the presentation of our Review 'EU financing through cohesion policy and the Recovery and Resilience Facility: A comparative analysis' at @EP_Regional

📲Livestream: http://europa.eu/!PQGPcc
📄Full report: http://europa.eu/!WJWK9J

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1638559973280972800

🎙️Follow live now the presentation of our Special Report on the Design of the Commission’s control system for the RRF at @EP_BudgControl

📲Livestream: http://europa.eu/!nBpW3d
📄Full report: http://europa.eu/!3yMM4P

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1638541347647807488

🗓️On Monday 27 March, we will publish a special report on the EU action to support intermodal freight transport.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1638208136350777344

Are you interested in public-sector auditing?

Don't miss our upcoming ECA Award ceremony and conference: ‘Realising European added value and strengthening accountability in the EU’.

🗓️Thursday 23 March
🕑14:30h

Full agenda and livestream 📲

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1638198146089058311

🎙️“Artificial intelligence will bring many benefits in a wide range of sectors, and the stakes for 🇪🇺 competitiveness are too high to get it wrong.

Our audit will determine if sufficient effort is being made to prevent Europe from missing this major technological revolution.”

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1638117337378304003

💻Artificial intelligence is key to the EU’s digital transition.

We are starting to assess 🇪🇺 action to support the development of artificial intelligence. The auditors will examine if @EU_Commission's plans & measures are conducive to positioning Europe as a global leader in AI

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1637846318587555847

🗨️"We wanted to verify whether the @EU_Commission and member states adequately addressed conflicts of interest in the common agricultural policy #CAP and cohesion policy.

👉We found that efforts were made to address the issue, but gaps remain."

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1635551317249732608

Member States report irregularities and fraud to @EUAntiFraud via the Irregularities Management System (IMS).

Since 2000, member states have reported:➡️440 conflict-of-interest cases in cohesion and agriculture. 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1635310775215734787

Around half of 🇪🇺 spending is under shared management by the Commission and the Member States.

This includes the:
◽️ European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF)
◽️ European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)

and the three main cohesion funds 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1635310467005710336

Although there is a framework to prevent conflicts of interest in #EU spending, there are loopholes in transparency & in detecting situations at risk.

Our🆕report look at how the issue is addressed in agricultural & cohesion policies, the biggest spending areas in the EU. 🌾

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1635310044534145026

📗#ECAJournal | @ZsoltDarvas a Senior Research Fellow at @Bruegel_org and @uni_corvinus , is one of the think tank’s principal researchers into the new EU instrument. He explains which key lessons can be drawn for designing future crisis response tools.
https://medium.com/ecajournal/five-lessons-from-the-recovery-and-resilience-facility-for-future-crisis-response-instruments-c7c1679b9a9

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1634841770323222537

📗#ECAJournal | @jnunez_ferrer Senior Research Fellow, and Tomás Ruiz de la Ossa, Research Assistant at @CEPS_thinktank have drawn a number of preliminary conclusions on how the RRF complements other 🇪🇺 funds, particularly those related to cohesion policy.
https://medium.com/ecajournal/substitution-effects-delays-constraints-and-administrative-capacity-risk-considerably-reducing-914d0bcd4b9f

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1634479383162281984

In the celebrations of #InternationalWomensDay, we presented the documentary film 'Inspiring women of Luxembourg: past, present and future’ with film director Ms Anne Schroeder and Ms Colette Flesch, 🇱🇺 politician and Olympic athlete.

#IWD2023

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1633883324669386752

🗓️ On Monday 13 March, we will publish a special report on the how the #EU tackles conflict of interest in cohesion and agricultural spending. 🇪🇺🌾

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1633851218232500224

🗨️“Citizens will only trust new ways of #EUfunding if they can be sure that their money is being spent properly.

👉Currently, there is a gap in terms of the assurance the Commission can provide for the EU’s main pandemic recovery fund and a lack of accountability at EU level.”

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1633762137561497601

In a relatively short time period, @EU_Commission set up a control system of checks for the €724 bn Recovery & Resilience Facility (#RRF)

Auditors have examined the design of this control system & found an assurance & accountability gap in protecting 🇪🇺’s financial interests.👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1633497976004923392