Press Release: Another clean bill of health for EU accounts; auditors find improvements in many payment areas

For the fourth year in a row, the EU's annual accounts have received a clean bill of health from its external auditors. As for EU spending, the overall error rate is once again below 4%. This means that the vast majority (at least 96%) of total payments made in 2010 were free from quantifiable error.

European Commission: Speech/11/747: Algirdas Šemeta: Speech on Court of Auditors annual report for 2010 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/11/747&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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