Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/1298 of 22 July 2022 on the equivalence of the systems of public oversight, quality assurance, investigation and penalties for auditors and audit entities of the competent authorities of the United States of America pursuant to Directive 2006/43/EC of the European Parliament and the Council (notified under document C(2022) 5118) (Text with EEA relevance)

For the purposes of Article 46(1) of Directive 2006/43/EC, the systems of public oversight, quality assurance, investigation and penalties for auditors and audit entities of the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States of America and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board of the United States of America shall be considered to meet requirements that are equivalent to those laid down in Articles 29, 30 and 32 of that Directive.

Article 1 shall be without prejudice to cooperative arrangements on individual quality assurance reviews between the competent authorities of a Member State and the competent authorities of the United States of America.

This Decision shall apply from 1 August 2022 to 31 July 2028.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.