Audit Management
Audited by the European Commission?
Raphael de Vivans, CEO
Myriam Verdierre, Senior expert
An audit carried out by the European Commission is as serious as a tax control. We strongly recommend you to contact us as soon as you receive the Letter of Announcement.
- What questions can auditors ask?
- Can the auditor meet one of my employees alone?
- Do they have the right to check other projects than the one audited?
- What are the mandatory documents to provide to the European Commission?
- Have you got a clear strategy for the audit, or are you facing the auditor unprepared?
As with any tax control, the auditors must follow rules and the audited organization must adhere to a process. Over 12 years of operation, our team, led by a former DG RTD Auditor, has helped organizations significantly reduce the adjustments requested by auditors. We support the entire process, from setting up a strategy to handling a potential letter of contestation, including on-the-spot visits and assistance during each interaction with the European Commission.
EFMC is the only consulting company with 2 former employees from the audit unit of the DG RTD which makes us the most credible to be onyour side and ensure that the audit is carried out in a proper manner.
In case you have already received your Preliminary Audit Report (PAR) with adjustments, recommendations for system improvement or systematic errors, do not hesitate to contact us. Sometimes, reasons for adjustments might vary from a beneficiary to another one. We will analyse the findings to verify if a contestation ispossible.
EFMC is also working in the advantage of the European Commission as when we are supporting a beneficiary during an audit, adjustments are much more limited which decreasing drastically the error rate.
We have supported more than 80 organisation facing an audit under FP7, H2020 or Horizon Europe.
Contact us for a free analysis of your readiness for an audit and a free quotation.