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Presentation of a study on the methodologies for estimating the level of errors

09-04-2025 - 10:25
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On 8 April 2025, CONT Members exchanged views on a study on "Methods in the ECA and the Commission to estimate the level of error in EU expenditure".

As part of their annual statement of assurance, the Court of Auditors estimates an error rate on the basis of a statistical sample of all EU expenditure. The Commission reports its own error rate in its Annual Management and Performance Report, the risk at payment. In recent years, the two estimates have been increasingly diverging, leading to repeated debates in the CONT Committee on these error rates, the underlying methodologies, and how to interpret the different estimates.