Examples of Audit Directive in a sentence
No. The 2006 Statutory Audit Directive (the 8th Directive) included the same definition.
The Legislation is in the form of a Directive and a Regulation.The Directive contains a series of requirements governing every statutory audit in the EU and amends the existing Statutory Audit Directive of 2006.The Regulation contains a series of additional requirements that relate only to the statutory audits of Public Interest Entities (PIE).
The practice here was that special purpose financial statements were accompanied by a special purpose audit opinion even where the Audit Directive and Audit Regulation applied to the issuer.
BASELINE SCENARIO AND SUBSIDIARITY 3.1. Baseline scenario If no change in policy occurs, statutory audit will be performed on the basis of the existing obligations under the Statutory Audit Directive and other related legal acts (see Annex 2 for the existing legal framework), respective national legislation, as well as self-regulatory codes.
The EU Audit Directive defines a ‘person closely associated’ as within the meaning in Commission Directive 2004/72/EC.
It includes a statutory audit performed pursuant to the EU Audit Directive and Regulation or otherwise designated by national law as a statutory audit.
Article 31 of the Statutory Audit Directive requests the European Commission to present a report on the impact of current national liability rules for the carrying out of statutory audits on European capital markets and on the insurance conditions for statutory auditors and audit firms, including an objective analysis of the limitations of financial liability.
In the EU Audit Directive and Regulation the term ‘statutory auditor’ is used in the context of a natural person.
Even after the adoption of the Statutory Audit Directive in 2006, self-regulation continued to exist in most of the Member States in the areas covered by the Directive, including the statutory audits of PIEs. The crisis has shown that self-regulation is not sufficient when looking towards the future.
That directive was replaced in 2006 by the Statutory Audit Directive, which expanded the scope to also cover some principles concerning the carry out of statutory audit and related supevision and a few specific provisions on the audit of PIEs. The Statutory Audit Directive is based on the freedom of establishment provisions of the Treaty102.