Association of Water Transportation Accounting Officers [ AWTAO | Association Water Fine Accounting Officers ]

8. Strongly supports measures to fight tax fraud and tax evasion; stresses the need for more efficient use of taxpayers’ money that involves Member States fully in addressing concerns over mismanagement and fraud; emphasises the importance of systematic, regular and independent evaluations to ensure that all spending is achieving the desired outcomes in a cost-effective manner; calls on the Commission to publish a green paper in 2016 on whether something based on the models of the UK’s Office ...[+++] of Budgetary Responsibility, France’s ‘Haut Conseil des finances publiques’, or the US Government Accountability Office should be introduced for the European Union, in addition to the work already performed by the Court of Auditors; regrets the failure of the new Commission to have a dedicated full-time Commissioner for Budgetary Control as repeatedly demanded by the European Parliament, and calls for this situation to be reviewed in 2016;

In a report issued last week, the General Accounting Office of the United States government indicated that the Veterans Health Association has dedicated a full year to obtaining vendor responses and has still only reached a response rate of 70% to 80%. The Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. has a response rate of 12% after a number of mailings.

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