EUROSAI. Magazine N21 - 2015

EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS REPORTS OF EUROSAI GOAL TEAMS, WORKING GROUPS, TASK FORCE AND MONITORING COMMITTEE 29 www.eurosai.org · N.º 21 - 2015 The IX EUROSAI Congress approved the Resolution on transformation of the EUROSAI Task Force on the Audit of Funds Allocated to Disasters and Catastrophes into the respective EUROSAI Working Group, under the chairmanship of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine, for the period until 2017. Today, the newWorking Group consists of 18 permanent members: SAIs of Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, the European Court of Auditors and two observers - SAIs of Estonia and Hungary. In order to determine the mission, values, strategic goals, directions and expected outcomes of the Working Group’s activity for the period between IX and X EUROSAI Congresses, the Strategy and Action Plan for 2015-2017 of the EUROSAI Working Group on the Audit of Funds Allocated to Disasters and Catastrophes, was prepared and distributed among the WG members for further consideration. The document is based on the EUROSAI Strategic Plan for 2011-2017, with taking into account the INTOSAI Strategic Plan for 2011-2016. І Meeting of the EUROSAI Working Group On 5 February 2015 in Luxembourg (the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine together with the European Court of Auditors held the I Meeting of the EUROSAI Working Group on the Audit of Funds Allocated to Disasters and Catastrophes, attended by 38 representatives of 17 SAIs. During the plenary session, the delegates exchanged their experiences concerning the best practice of conducting audits in the sphere of prevention and eliminating consequences of disasters and catastrophes as well as methods on implementation of ISSAIs 5500. As the result of the meeting, the members of the Working Group approved the Strategy and Action Plan for 2015-2017, the logo and the Secretariat’s progress report. Training seminar of the Working Group On 20-21 October 2015 in Ankara (Republic of Turkey) the training seminar on “Experience of development and possibility for Supreme Audit Institutions to implement ISSAI 5500 “Guidelines on Audit of Disaster-related Aid” took place. The organizers of the seminar were the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine together with the Turkish Court of Accounts. The event was focused on issues of disasters methodology development, problems of its testing and adaptation through coordinated/ parallel audits. The participants of the seminar (representatives from 8 SAIs – WG members) had an excellent opportunity to exchange experience RESULTS OF ACTIVITY AND PLANNED ACTIONS OF THE EUROSAI WORKING GROUP ON THE AUDIT OF FUNDS ALLOCATED TO DISASTERS AND CATASTROPHES The SAI of Ukraine Chair of the EUROSAI Working Group on the Audit of Funds Allocated to Disasters and Catastrophes