PURPOSE: to present the report by the Court of Auditors on the 2008 annual accounts of the Euratom Supply Agency.
CONTENT: in the Court’s opinion, the Agency’s Annual Accounts fairly present, in all material respects, its financial position as of 31 December 2008 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended. The transactions underlying the Agency’s annual accounts for the financial year ended are, in all material respects, legal and regular.
The Court makes no comments as regards the financial and budgetary management of the Agency. In the absence of an autonomous budget, the Agency is de facto integrated in the Commission. This situation raises the issue of the need to maintain the Agency in its current form and organisation.