Opinion of the BEREC Office Management Committee on the European Court of Auditor’s report on the annual accounts for financial year 2013

Document number: MC (14) 97

Document date: 26-09-2014

Date of registration: 29-09-2014

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Author: BEREC Office MC

Article 13 (9) of the Regulation (EC) No 1211/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 establishing the Body of the European Regulators for Electronic Communication (BEREC) and the Office requires the Management Committee (MC) to reply to the observations of the European Court of Auditors (ECA’) by 15 October and also to send this reply to the European Parliament and the Commission.

The BEREC Office MC already issued an Opinion on the BEREC Office Final Accounts for 2013 (document MC (14) 65) taking into account the preliminary observations of ECA.

In its final Report the Court reiterates its comments from its preliminary observations for the 2013 financial year on the following issues:
- budgetary management
- payment delays (other comments)

In that respect the MC has prepared its reply to the ECA presented below, which was approved by the MC during its 20th meeting (26 September 2014, Rome).