Amendment of Regulation 537/2014
98. In Article 24 (delegation of tasks)—
(a)for paragraph 1, substitute—
“(1) Where the competent authority delegates any of the competent authority’s tasks to a recognised supervisory body under regulation 3 of the Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors Regulations 2016, this must not include tasks related to—
(a)the quality assurance system referred to in Article 26;
(b)investigations carried out under powers in the Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors Regulations 2016 arising from that quality assurance system or from a referral by another authority; and
(c)the imposition of sanctions and the taking of measures under regulations 5 to 8 of the Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors Regulations 2016 related to the quality assurance reviews or investigation of statutory audits of public interest entities.”;
(b)in paragraph 3, omit the second subparagraph;
(c)omit paragraph 4.