EUROSAI. Magazine N18 - 2012

EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS www.eurosai.org No. 18 - 2012 > 69 < •  To compile a set of good practices. • T o list a set of examples of concrete ethical dilemmas arising from each basic principle and of possible ways to solve or minimise them. •  To identify good practices and define model courses for ethical training. •  To include the information in the website. Goal 2 Promote ethical conduct in public organisations through the SAIs’ activities. Maintenance of a high level of ethical behaviour within the organization will probably reduce corruption as well as mismanagement and allow it to enjoy a high reputation within stakeholders and the whole society. Auditing ethics comes up as a practical way to regularly make the assessment of compliance with those demands, to evaluate at what level control systems are strong and robust , and that ethics stands at a high level within the organisation. The TF decided to provide support to European SAIs on this matter by: •  Listing and gathering material on all relevant experiences in auditing ethics. •  Discussing the possible role of SAIs in auditing integrity management. •  Sharing information and experience in a seminar and in the website. 3 . Upcoming Activities The Task Force on Audit & Ethics will launch, early December, a survey on Promoting ethical behaviour within SAIs and in public institutions , addressed to all EUROSAI members, to collect and analyse information on SAI’s practices. The main purpose is to develop an in depth study over this matter and make it available to the other SAIs. Two seminars are also previewed to be held: •  The first one, aiming to allow discussion and to share experiences and knowledge about the audit of ethics, likely to be held in September 2013 . •  And another one, in the beginning of 2014 , aiming to share experiences and the results of the TF works in what concerns ethics within SAIs. The Task Force is seeking to complement its activity with other INTOSAI initiatives, such as INTOSAINT and to share experience with other INTOSAI Regions. A fruitful cooperation is envisaged with CEPAT (Committee for Public Ethics, Integrity and Transparency) from OLACEFS. The 2 nd TF meeting should be held in the 1 st quarter of 2013 , in the SAI of Croatia. n REPORTS AND STUDIES