EUROSAI. Magazine N21 - 2015

EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS Eurosai Activities 11 www.eurosai.org · N.º 21 - 2015 Item 16.— Mr. Peter-Kristian Foss, Auditor General of the SAI of Norway and Chairman of the Board of the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI), and Ms. Archana Shirsat, reported on IDI’s Strategic Plan and how to strengthen IDI-EUROSAI cooperation. Some questions were posed to EUROSAI, taking into account the strategic shift in the IDI Strategic Plan 2014-2018 to strengthen the work with the INTOSAI regions and the possibility of working on a cost recovery basis. IDI presented the 7 IDI programmes for 2015-2018 and offered them not only to eligible countries in EUROSAI but also to non-eligible members on a cost recovery basis, asking EUROSAI to coordinate those requests. Ms. Stuiveling proposed that GTs and WGs would reflect on those questions and would get back to IDI. Item 17.— Mr. Philippe Roland, Senior President of the SAI of Belgium, informed the GB on the progress of operational cooperation with the European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA), in implementing the renewed Cooperation Agreement signed with EUROSAI in The Hague in June 2014. A EUROSAI-ECIIA Cooperation Committee and network of SAI and Internal Audit contact persons had been set up and Mr. Roland encouraged all attending SAIs to join that network and contribute to the cooperation process. He also asked SAIs to contact their Institute of Internal Auditors’ national chapters to increase the involvement of ECIIA in the cooperation process in terms of numbers of chapters involved and content. Item 18.— Mr. Nikolay Paruzin, representative of the SAI of the Russian Federation and Mr. Jacek Jezierski, representative of the SAI of Poland, informed the GB on the last INTOSAI GB held in Vienna in 2014 and on issues EUROSAI must be aware of. They were: a) The INTOSAI Professional Standards Committee presented recommendations for a more comprehensive approach to INTOSAI’s standard setting; b) The drafting of the Code of Ethics, in which EUROSAI is involved and that will soon be distributed for comments; and c) The possibility of certification for auditors and SAIs in the INTOSAI community (White paper on professional development in INTOSAI). Item 19.— The GB was informed by Ms. González-Koss about the United Nations General Assembly Resolution, adopted on 19 December 2014 on “Promoting and fostering the efficiency, accountability, effectiveness and transparency of public administration by strengthening SAIs”. Ms. González-Koss also informed the GB on the 23 rd UN-INTOSAI Symposium held in Vienna in March 2015. She explained the progress made by the INTOSAI Task Force for Strategic Planning and that the draft of the new INTOSAI Strategic Plan will be presented to the next INTOSAI GB meeting in November 2015. It will be sent for comments to all INTOSAI members in 2016 and presented to the Congress for approval at the 22 nd INCOSAI in 2016. Item 20.— The Secretary General informed the GB about two candidacies received for hosting the 23 rd INCOSAI (2019), which will take place in the EUROSAI region: the SAI of Turkey and the SAI of the Russian Federation. The EUROSAI candidate must be submitted to the next INTOSAI GB in November 2015. Mr. Recai Akyel, President of the SAI of Turkey, announced the withdrawal of the candidacy of the SAI of Turkey in favor of the Russian candidacy. He expressed his interest in joining the INTOSAI GB as EUROSAI representative when a vacancy becomes available, asking for the support of EUROSAI. Mr. Nikolay Paruzin, representative of the SAI of the Russian Federation, thanked Mr. Akyel and confirmed the candidacy of the SAI of the Russian Federation to host the 23 rd INCOSAI in 2019. Item 21.— Mr. Serafim Urechean, President of the SAI of the Republic of Moldova, and Ms. Viorica Verdes, informed the GB that the 44 th meeting of the EUROSAI GB will take place in Moldova, probably during the 2 nd or 3 rd week of June 2016 (the concrete dates will be fixed at a later stage).