Synthesis Report on the coordinated audit on Joint Assistance to Support Projects in European Regions (JASPERS)
About Jaspers In 2005, the European Commission decided to engage in a new initiative together with the European Investment Bank (EIB), known as ‘Joint Assistance to Support Projects in European Regions’ (JASPERS), to provide the Member States that joined the EU in 2004 or later with independent technical advice.
The aim of the JASPERS initiative was to help the Member States, free of charge, to prepare high-quality proposals for large investment projects for funding through the EU’s Cohesion and European Regional Development Funds.
In march 2016, the SAIs of Croatia, the Supreme Audit Office of Poland as well as the European Court of Auditors (ECA) agreed to carry out a coordinated audit. It was a performance audit of the effectiveness of the JASPERS initiative in the field of shared management in Structural/Cohesion funds.
The audits covered the period from when JASPERS began operations in 2006 until the end of 2016. Within the respective audit mandates of the three SAIs, the main audit topics and audit criteria were established in a coordinated way between the three audit teams.
Source: http://www.revizija.hr/datastore/filestore/82/SYNTHESIS_REPORT_ON_THE_COORDINATED_AUDIT_ON_JOINT_ASSISTANCE_TO_SUPPORT_PROJECTS_IN_EUROPEAN_REGIONS_JASPERS.pdf