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European Union - 8th
Company Law Directive
DIRECTIVE
2006/43/EC
CHAPTER IV:
PROFESSIONAL
ETHICS,
INDEPENDENCE,
OBJECTIVITY,
CONFIDENTIALITY AND PROFESSIONAL SECRECY
Article 21
Professional ethics
1. Member States shall ensure that all statutory auditors and
audit firms are subject to principles of professional ethics,
covering at least their public-interest function, their integrity
and objectivity and their professional competence and due care.
2. In order to ensure confidence in the audit function and to
ensure uniform application of paragraph 1 of this Article, the
Commission may, in accordance with the procedure referred to
in Article 48(2), adopt principle-based implementing measures
governing professional ethics.
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