EUROSAI. Magazine N21 - 2015

EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS REPORTS OF EUROSAI GOAL TEAMS, WORKING GROUPS, TASK FORCE AND MONITORING COMMITTEE 21 www.eurosai.org · N.º 21 - 2015 Goal Team 2 is responsible for promoting the implementation and development of the International Standards of Supreme Audit Institutions (ISSAI) within EUROSAI. Based on the EUROSAI Strategic Plan, Goal Team 2 developed an operational plan in October 2011 and has taken a series of measures to implement the tasks formulated in this plan ever since. After the mid-term review and the accompanying adaptation of activities for the strategic goal 2, the Goal Team focused on the following aspects in 2015: •  Translation of further ISSAIs into Russian: The Russian ISSAI translations of the Lima Declaration and ISSAIs 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 30, 100, 300 and 400 are now published on the EUROSAI website. A number of level 4 auditing guidelines of the ISSAI framework are currently being revised. For this reason, Goal Team 2 will translate further standards only after they have been adopted in December 2016 by the XXII INCOSAI. •  Monitoring the“3i Programme” on ISSAI implementation run by the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI): In the participating nine EUROSAI member SAIs, 25 ISSAI facilitators have been certified by now to support their respective SAI in implementing the ISSAIs. Whether the ISSAI facilitators – such as in OLACEFS – will also support other EUROSAI members as regional experts shall be a decision of each individual SAI. •  Seminars on ISSAI implementation: In 2015, Goal Team 2 itself did not organise any seminars. However, during the seminar on Methods and Measuring Tools to Audit Ethics of the Task Force on Audit and EUROSAI GOAL TEAM 2 - PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION OF ISSAIS WITHIN EUROSAI Kay Scheller President of the Bundesrechnungshof (German SAI) Chair of EUROSAI Goal Team 2 “Professional Standards” 23 Auditors from 17 Supreme Audit Institutions participated in the 5th meeting of Goal Team 2 in Potsdam on 8-9 October 2015, as well as a representative of the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) and two representatives of the European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Audit (ECIIA)