The overall project objective is to assist in increasing awareness and providing Member States with effective tools to address the shortcomings on NAS and on internal audits, and to enhance the current systems, as well as the overall strategy of the BTSF initiative, the following objectives for this training course have been formulated:
- To ensure the quality, suitability and improving the consistency and effectiveness of official controls.
- To further reflect on risk-based planning of audit programs and transparency of the audit process outside the organization.
- To help ensure that audit arrangements are optimized to provide credible, reliable results that have a positive impact on the effectiveness and consistency of official controls.
- To highlight the need to have a strong management commitment to the follow-up of audit recommendations.
- To address the legal requirements for independence scrutiny of the audit process
Content
The course addresses the following topics:
- Be able to review audit processes and organization of audit systems.
- Understand and apply the concepts of measuring the effectiveness of official controls.
- Understand evidence-based findings - audit evidence.
- Be aware of root-cause analysis, methods of root-cause analysis, usefulness and applicability to audits.
- Understand the drafting of conclusions and recommendations.
- Understand audit reporting.
- Know the audit techniques relating to, but not necessarily limited to, the above activities.
- Understand audit resources, auditor competence & auditor characteristics.
Target audience
This training course has been designed for the profiles and positions described below. Please verify compliance with the selection criteria before submitting or validating applications.
- Officials involved in audits of official controls, at national, regional, or local competent authorities.
- Be nationals from EU Member States (MS), Candidate countries, Potential candidate countries, or from EFTA/EEA/countries with special agreements, selected Eastern Partnership and Southern Neighborhood signatory countries with the EU.
- Be working in an audit of official controls unit.
- Be technical expert seconded to an audit team to provide technical expertise to the audit team in the fields covered under the Official Control Regulation
- Inspectors directly involved in the practical implementation of these topics.
Calendar and locations
| Session | Start Date | End Date | City | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 06/10/2025 | 10/10/2025 | Sofia | Bulgaria |
| 2 | 03/11/2025 | 07/11/2025 | Trim | Ireland |
| 3 | 01/12/2025 | 05/12/2025 | Athens | Greece |
| 4 | 26/01/2026 | 30/01/2026 | Valetta | Malta |
| 5 | 23/02/2026 | 27/02/2026 | Lisbon | Portugal |
| 6 | 23/03/2026 | 27/03/2026 | Bratislava | Slovakia |
| 7 | 20/04/2026 | 24/04/2026 | Krakow | Poland |
| 8 | 18/05/2026 | 22/05/2026 | Trim | Ireland |
| 9 | 15/06/2026 | 25/06/2026 | Zoom | - |