67. Welcomes the improvements brought to the overall opinion issued by the Commission's internal auditor, which also underpin the Synthesis report, but notes that the positive opinion given by the Internal auditor is based in particular on the assurance given in the annual activity reports by senior management of the Commission;

12. Establishes from the AAR that the College took measures to streamline its internal control by adopting 16 internal control standards and recruiting an internal control officer in August 2011; welcomes the compliance assessment review regarding the degree of implementation of the 16 internal control standards, which was held in the fourth quarter of 2011 and which showed that, overall, the College was in compliance with the requirements of the internal control standards;

The public oversight of statutory auditors and audit firms encompasses the approval and registration of statutory auditors and audit firms, the adoption of standards in respect of professional ethics and internal quality control of audit firms, continuing education, and the systems of quality assurance, investigation and sanctions for statutory auditors and audit firms.

a statutory auditor or an audit firm shall establish appropriate policies and procedures to ensure that outsourcing of important audit functions is not undertaken in such a way as to impair the quality of the statutory auditor's or the audit firm's internal quality control and the ability of the competent authorities to supervise the statutory auditor's or the audit firm's compliance with the obligations laid down in this Directive and, where applicable, in Regulation (EU) No 537/2014.

2. Member States shall ensure that where the agreement between the feeder UCITS and the master UCITS has been replaced by internal conduct of business rules in accordance with the third subparagraph of Article 60(1) of Directive 2009/65/EC, the agreement between the auditors of the master UCITS and the feeder UCITS provides that the law applying to the information-sharing agreement between both auditors shall be either that of the Member State in which the feeder UCITS is established or, where different, that of the Member State in which the master UCITS is established, and that both auditors agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the co ...[+++]urts of the Member State whose law is applicable to the information-sharing agreement.

(d)a statutory auditor or an audit firm shall establish appropriate policies and procedures to ensure that outsourcing of important audit functions is not undertaken in such a way as to impair the quality of the statutory auditor's or the audit firm's internal quality control and the ability of the competent authorities to supervise the statutory auditor's or the audit firm's compliance with the obligations laid down in this Directive and, where applicable, in Regulation (EU) No 537/2014.