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EUROPEAN ORGANISATION of SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS MAGAZINE No. 21 - 2015 EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS MAGAZINE No. 21 - 2015 2years 5 1990 - 2015 EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS 2 INDEXINDEX INDEX EDITORIAL EUROSAI GOAL TEAM 3 - INFORMATION ON EU KNOWLEDGE SHARING ........................... 23 EUROSAI AUDIT DATABASE – ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GT3 MEETING OF THE CONTACT EUROSAI ACTIVITIES OUTCOMES COMMITTEE OF THE HEADS OF Miloslav Kala SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS 43rd EUROSAI GOVERNING President of the SAI of the Czech OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND BOARD MEETING .......................................... 8 Republic THE EUROPEAN COURT OF Chair of EUROSAI Goal Team 3 Summary of the Main Discussions AUDITORS IN 2015 ...................................... 38 and Agreements Helsinki (Finland), 10 March 2015 EUROSAI GOAL TEAM 4 - ANNUAL REPORT OF GOVERNANCE AND THE EUROPEAN COURT COMMUNICATION ....................................... 25 VIII JOINT CONFERENCE OF AUDITORS ON THE The SAI of The Netherlands OLACEFS-EUROSAI ..................................... 13 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EU Chair of EUROSAI Goal Team 4 BUDGET CONCERNING THE EUROSAI ACTIVITIES DURING 2015 15 2014 FINANCIAL YEAR ............................. 40 RECENT ACTIVITIES OF THE EUROSAI WORKING GROUP ON ADVANCE OF EUROSAI OTHER REPORTS, OPINIONS ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING ............. 27 ACTIVITIES IN 2016 ..................................... 16 AND DOCUMENTS ISSUED BY The SAI of Estonia THE EUROPEAN COURT OF Chair of the EUROSAI Working Group AUDITORS IN 2015 ...................................... 43 APPOINTMENTS IN EUROSAI on Environmental Auditing SAIS DURING 2015 ...................................... 16 NEW MEMBERS JOINING RESULTS OF ACTIVITY AND THE EUROPEAN COURT OF PLANNED ACTIONS OF THE AUDITORS IN 2015 ...................................... 44 EUROSAI WORKING GROUP REPORTS OF EUROSAI GOAL ON THE AUDIT OF FUNDS TEAMS, WORKING GROUPS, ALLOCATED TO DISASTERS ISSAI SPOTLIGHT TASK FORCE AND MONITORING AND CATASTROPHES ................................ 29 COMMITTEE The SAI of Ukraine Chair of the EUROSAI Working Group REVISION OF ISSAI 30 ............................... 46 on the Audit of Funds Allocated to The SAI of Poland & the SAI of Disasters and Catastrophes EUROSAI GOAL TEAM 1- Portugal CAPACITY BUILDING ................................. 18 MAIN OUTCOMES OF EUROSAI EUROSAI WORKING GROUP ON GOAL TEAM 1 ON CAPACITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES ...... 31 BUILDING IN 2015 The SAI of Poland The SAI of Hungary Chair of the Working Group on Chair of EUROSAI Goal Team 1 Information Technologies EUROSAI GOAL TEAM 2- THE EUROSAI TASK FORCE ON PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS ............. 21 AUDIT AND ETHICS (TFA&E): IMPLEMENTATION OF ISSAIS LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ........................ 34 WITHIN EUROSAI The SAI of Portugal Kay Scheller Chair of the Task Force on Audit & President of the Bundesrechnungshof Ethics (SAI of Germany) Chair of EUROSAI Goal Team 2 www.eurosai.org · N.º 21 - 2015 EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS INDEX 3 25th ANNIVERSARY OF EUROSAI HOW SAIS CAN CONTRIBUTE ACCOUNTABILITY AND TO GOOD GOVERNANCE AND INTEGRITY IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR 110 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Ambrin Buang EUROSAI: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS BY PROMOTING Auditor-General of Malaysia OF FRUITFUL COOPERATION TRANSPARENCY AND Chairman of ASOSAI TO STRENGTHEN EXTERNAL ACCOUNTABILITY ......................................... 85 AUDIT ..................................................................... 50 Dr. Josef Moser OTHER ARTICLES AND STUDIES .... 113 María José de la Fuente y de la Calle President of the Austrian Court Member of the Spanish Court of Audit of Audit GIVING FULL PLAY TO THE Secretary General of INTOSAI ROLE OF NATIONAL AUDIT AS IN CONVERSATION WITH JOSÉ BEDROCK AND SIGNIFICANT TAVARES ............................................................... 55 ETHICS MATTERS .......................................... 89 SAFEGUARD IN NATIONAL Eduardo Ruiz García GOVERNANCE ................................................. 114 Secretary-General of the European VIEWS FROM THE TOP .............................. 58 Liu Jiayi Court of Auditors Auditor General of the SAI of China EUROSAI TIMELINE 1990-2015 ......... 62 Chairman of INTOSAI’s Governing Board EUROSAI CONTRIBUTION TO A SNAPSHOT OF EUROSAI .................... 66 GOOD GOVERNANCE AND CONTRIBUTION OF SUPREME RELIABLE AUDITING OF THE AUDIT INSTITUTIONS IN PUBLIC SECTOR BY MODERN EUROSAI PAST AND PRESENT – ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE SAIS. SAI OF SLOVAKIA A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE ........ 70 DEVELOPMENT GOALS: WHAT EXPERIENCE ...................................................... 92 IS REQUIRED? .................................................. 116 The SAI of Slovakia The SAI of Tunisia REPORTS AND STUDIES General Secretariat of ARABOSAI EUROSAI CONTRIBUTION TO GOOD GOVERNANCE AND THE BAI’S INNOVATION EUROSAI CONTRIBUTION TO RELIABLE AUDITING OF THE STRATEGY TO INCREASE GOOD GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC SECTOR BY MODERN SAIS 95 PUBLIC TRUST ................................................. 120 RELIABLE AUDITING OF THE The SAI of Malta The SAI of Korea PUBLIC SECTOR BY MODERN SAIS 75 General Secretariat of ASOSAI IDI & EUROSAI- ENDURING THE 21st CENTURY AND THE PARTNERSHIP FOR CAPACITY THE ROLE OF THE FEDERAL ROAD AHEAD ................................................... 76 DEVELOPMENT OF SAIS.......................... 99 COURT OF ACCOUNTS OF Arno Visser INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) BRAZIL IN ENCOURAGING President of the SAI of The Netherlands GOVERNMENT DATA OPENNESS ..... 125 President of EUROSAI IXth EUROSAI CONGRESS AND Clayton Ferreira da Silva, Luísa Helena Santos Franco, Marcio THE SPANISH COURT OF AUDIT, 90 YEARS OF ALSAI ..................................... 103 Rodrigo Braz, Rafael Albuquerque 25 YEARS AT THE FOREFRONT Dr. Bujar Leskaj President of the SAI of Albania da Silva and Sylvio Xavier Junior OF THE EUROSAI SECRETARIAT; (IT Auditors, Department of IT Audit) REFLECTIONS AND A LOOK THE ARCTIC COUNCIL - The SAI of Brazil INTO THE FUTURE ........................................ 79 PERSPECTIVES ON A CHANGING Ramón Álvarez de Miranda García TWINNING PROJECT President of the Spanish Court of Audit ARCTIC. Secretary General of EUROSAI PRESENTATION OF A MULTILATERAL STRENGTHENED CAPACITIES AUDIT ON THE ARCTIC STATES’ OF THE STATE AUDIT CONTRIBUTION OF EUROSAI IN NATIONAL AUTHORITIES’ WORK INSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC PUBLIC SECTOR AUDITING................... 82 WITH THE ARCTIC COUNCIL ........................ 106 OF SERBIA ........................................................... 128 Assoc. Prof. Recai AKYEL The SAI of Norway The SAI of Serbia President of the SAI of Turkey THE 135th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BULGARIAN NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE .................................................. 131 The SAI of Bulgaria www.eurosai.org · N.º 21 - 2015 EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS EditoriaL 5 EDITORIAL Dear colleagues, 25 years ago, in 1990, EUROSAI saw the light for the first time in Madrid, as the last regional forum created in INTOSAI for the exchange of experiences. EUROSAI was conceived by the delegations of 30 European SAIs gathered in the Constitutive Conference, as a privileged framework for exchange of knowledge among members, to promote mutual enrichment and to improve the audit of public funds. It is remarkable that one of the topics discussed during the Congress that followed the Constitutive Conference was “Proposals for a better and more effective development of EUROSAI”. Therefore, since the very beginning of existence of our Organization, one of the main concerns was the effectiveness of EUROSAI’s development. With this in mind, they concluded that “EUROSAI would have to give concrete content to its development by a permanent process of adjusting its activities to members’ expectations”, thus making members’ needs and expectations the first priority when planning EUROSAI activities. The past meets the present and today we are able to recognize this demand driven orientation of EUROSAI, set already in its inception, in the independent evaluation of EUROSAI’s governance and modus operandi recently launched under the initiative of the IX Congress held in 2014. This project includes, as a first step, an in-depth self-assessment, which will gather the members’ insights of the governance and activities of EUROSAI and their expectations for the future. The results of the whole exercise will help EUROSAI perform in a more efficient way, supporting EUROSAI decision-making on possible enhancements regarding its governance and functioning. It cannot be denied that we have come a long way together since 1990. To pay tribute to these 25 years of fruitful cooperation among EUROSAI members, this issue of the Magazine includes a special section devoted to the silver jubilee of EUROSAI. In this section, we have the great privilege of being able to share with you the views and memories of relevant and exceptional witnesses of the inception and development of EUROSAI, including reflections by the former Presidencies who strategically led EUROSAI during their terms, the current Presidency who is encouraging members to plant new ideas to ensure a sustainable future for EUROSAI, and other crucial EUROSAI stakeholders, such as the INTOSAI Secretary General and the IDI Secretariat. Moreover, the evolution, development and main products of EUROSAI have been displayed in the “EUROSAI Timeline” and the “Snapshot of EUROSAI” subsections. Both documents are simple and graphic tools to assess at a glance the key milestones and outputs of EUROSAI. I truly hope
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