Lessons from Performance Auditing of EU-funded Transport Investments journal article Luc T’Joen, Lorenzo Pirelli European Structural and Investment Funds Journal, Volume 4 (2016), Issue 1, Page 17 - 25 This paper reviews and discusses some lessons learnt from auditing the performance of EU-funded transport (mainly infrastructure) investments. Section I introduces EU transport policy, describing its rationale, its budget and the way it is managed. Section II explains what performance audit is, its current use and role in the EU context, and the approach followed by the European Court of Auditors (ECA). Section III provides specific examples and common findings of recent ECA transport performance audits. Section IV concludes and presents possible further directions for the application and impact of performance audit.
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