EUROSAI. Magazine N18 - 2012

REPORTS AND STUDIES EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS www.eurosai.org No. 18 - 2012 > 72 < This document sets out the strategic goals and activities of EUROSAI Task Force for the period between the VIII and IX EUROSAI Congress from 2012 to 2014 . The EUROSAI Task Force Mission is to coordinate and consolidatetheeffortsofEuropeanSAIstowardsincreasing their awareness of the disasters and catastrophes and to help governments develop the effective and efficient instruments of disasters and catastrophes prevention and consequences elimination. In order to achieve its vision, EUROSAI Task Force will work towards the following strategic goals: 1 . Encouraging joint, coordinated and parallel audits of funds allocated to prevention and consequences elimination of disasters and catastrophes within the framework of EUROSAI. 2 . Developing the methodology in the field of auditing funds allocated to prevention and consequences elimination of disasters and catastrophes, also capacity building of SAIs in this sphere. 3 . Enhancing the collaboration and setting up new contacts between SAIs within the framework of the EUROSAI Task Force activities, conducting joint activities, sharing information and experiences, trainings. 4 . Developing a common approach and coordination of the efforts with INTOSAI and EUROSAIWorking Groups and bodies, aswell as other international organizations. The achievement of mentioned goals should ensure: 1 . Maintaning a database of the audits of natural and man-caused disasters in Europe. 2 . Updating of the glossary of terms on auditing the funds allocated to prevention and consequences elimination of disasters and catastrophes. 3 . Completion and approval of Recommendations of the good practices on the Audit of Funds Allocated to Disasters and Catastrophes. 4 . Conducting of the audits of the funds allocated to prevention and consequences elimination of disasters and catastrophes within the framework of EUROSAI Task Force. It should be noted that the group has already started to implement the approved plan. In 2011 the Coordinated Parallel Audit on Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution was completed. Joint report was signed and presented by Accounting Chamber of Ukraine at the IX Meeting of the EUROSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing (October 2011 , Stockholm, Sweden). In 2011 the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine has conducted follow up audit of the public funds and other sources of funding allocated to regulation, protection, research and reproduction of water biological resources and provision of environment safety in the fishing basins of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov conducted jointly with the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation in 2010 . The follow-up audit revealed that there remained poor coordination of activities in the area of provision of environmental safety in the fishing basin of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. At the same time the recommendations on enhanced performance while using the state funds are still relevant. In this connection the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine together with our Russian colleagues initiated further audit activities, namely, for the Black Sea protection against pollution. According to the findings of the Coordinated Black Sea Audit the Danube, the Dnieper and the Don rivers are among the main pollutants of the Black Sea. Therefore the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine initiated the Coordinated Audit of the Implementation of the Convention on Cooperation for the Protection and Sustainable Use of the Danube River in 2013 as the first phase of an integrated audit of the Black Sea protection against pollution that was supported by the Task Force members and listed in its Plan. Soon we are planning to determine the participants of this audit, and during the annual EUROSAI TF Meeting in 2013 , to sign a joint position about conducting this audit. Next stages of this work are audits in the sphere of protection the Dnieper and the Don rivers against pollution. n At the 39 th EUROSAI Steering Committee Meeting ( 28-30.04.2012 , Ankara, Turkey) the Chairman of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine on the behalf of the Task Force presented new Work Plan on 2012-2014 . n