IGAMAOT (English Version)

Carry out, on a systematic basis, audits, inspections and other control actions to the activity carried out by bodies, services and entities;

Carrying out inquiries, inquiries and other actions that are determined above;

Exercise sectoral financial control of the organisms and services, within the framework of the annual and multi-annual objectives and targets set within the Internal Control System of the State Financial Administration (SCI);

Systematically monitor and evaluate the degree of implementation of the recommendations made to the bodies, services and entities audited in the context of the actions carried out by IGAMAOT;

Ensure the performance of administrative and financial auditing actions, as well as inspection of public and private entities in matters of environmental incidence, including those related to compliance with tax norms for environmental taxes and contributions, and impose measures that prevent or eliminate situations of serious danger to health, safety of people, property and the environment;

Carry out inspections and audits in the areas of land use planning and nature conservation in order to monitor and evaluate compliance with legality;

Exercise its own functions as a criminal police body in relation to crimes related to the fulfilment of its mission in matters of environmental incidence, without prejudice to the attributions of other entities;

Initiate, instruct and decide environmental offence proceedings, under the terms of the environmental offence framework law, as well as in other cases provided for by law, and to raise notice of legally defined offences;

Ensure the coordination of the National Audit System in the area of food safety under Regulation (EC) 882/2004 of the European Parliament and Council of 28 April;

Carry out external audits of the official control systems implemented by the services and bodies in the field of food safety;

Evaluating the internal audit systems of the competent authorities in the field of food safety;

Ensure national coordination and implementation of ex-post controls on beneficiaries of support financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (FEAGA) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (FEADER);

Carry out the specific service tasks provided for in Article 85 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December;

Carry out audits of the management and control systems for aid granted and operations financed from national and European Union funds, in the sectors of agriculture, rural development, forestry and the sea;

Conduct disciplinary proceedings, where determined;

Issue opinions and draw up studies on matters within its remit, as well as to participate in the drafting of legal acts;

Ensure national representation, including participation in national or international working groups or experts, as well as liaison with other national authorities, the European Commission and other Member States of the European Union and to establish external cooperation relations;

Monitoring the European Union’s control missions, in the context of its tasks, including those relating to the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (FEAGA), the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (FEADER), the European Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Fund (EAFF) and food safety;

Coordinate the national representation in the European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Enviromental Law (IMPEL);

Coordinate the national representation in the National Audit Systems Network for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 on the organisation of official control systems in the field of food safety;

Proceed with inspection actions to public and private entities in order to monitor and evaluate compliance with radiological protection and nuclear safety standards, as well as, in this context, to initiate, instruct and decide administrative offence proceedings, under the terms of the environmental offences framework law, and raise news reports regarding the remaining infringements;

Carry out inspection actions in matters related with ships and vessels, without prejudice to the duties of other entities.