Text tabled : A7-0036/2012

  Nuno Teixeira (PPE), in writing. – (PT) Section 7 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union establishes the Court of Auditors as a European institution. It was created in 1975 in order to audit the European Union’s accounts and improve its financial management. The Court of Auditors can carry out audits of any person or organisation with responsibility for managing EU funds and present its conclusions in the form of written reports, which are sent to the Commission and to the governments of the Member States. The Member States put forward a proposal to the Council, which, after consultation with the European Parliament, approves the list of members of the Court of Auditors. I am voting in favour of Baudilio Tomé Muguruza’s nomination as he meets the conditions set out in Article 286(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.