STAREP Brochure
Strengthening Auditing and Reporting in the Countries of the Eastern Partnership (STAREP) is a regional program aimed at creating a transparent policy environment and effective institutional framework for corporate reporting within the countries that make up the EU's Eastern Partnership: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The six countries have made significant progress in modernizing their systems of corporate financial reporting but face several outstanding common challenges, especially as regards institutional capacity.
EU-REPARIS Brochure
As candidates, or potential candidates, for EU enlargement the countries of Southeast Europe, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, are integrating more closely with the EU and the EU's internal market, and aligning their legislative frameworks with the EU acquis communautaire.
EU-REPARIS has been designed to help and encourage this process of integration. It
Advancing SME Sustainability Reporting: Webinars on Leveraging the Voluntary Standard for SMEs
The World Bank Centre for Financial and Sustainability Reporting Reform (CFRR), in partnership with EFRAG, hosted webinars on October 16 and 23, 2025, on the Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (VSME). The webinars raised awareness among regulators, policymakers, market participants, SMEs, and other stakeholders in European Union (EU) accession and EU neighborhood countries on leveraging the VSME Standard to address key sustainability reporting challenges.
Improved Transparency and Corporate Sustainability Reporting – New Developments in the EU
A two-day virtual webinar was delivered by the CFRR on March 30 and 31, 2022 under two flagship regional programs: Strengthening Auditing and Reporting in the Eastern Partnership (STAREP) and the Road to Europe Program of Accounting Reform and Strengthening Institutions for Small and Medium Enterprises (REPARIS for SMEs).