EUROSAI. Magazine N21 - 2015

EUROSAI 1990 2015 25 EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS 25 th ANNIVERSARY OF EUROSAI 54 www.eurosai.org · N.º 21 - 2015 of their independence and continuous improvement and the development of external audit in Europe. The Organisation encourages the analysis of common problems that arise in this area and provides globally valid solutions. EUROSAI aims to encourage its member SAIs to move with society and even anticipate its demands, guiding public management along the roads of good governance, ethics, accountability, transparency, efficiency, the desire to serve citizens, from impartiality, objectivity, rigour and on a high technical level. III. Cooperation: Key To Individual And Collective Growth In a globalised world, the practice of each SAI constitutes an important source of information and experience for others. Therefore, cooperation comes as a key element in which the contribution of each one adds exponential value to the whole. There is no doubt about the value EUROSAI contributes to the development of its members for approaching action strategies and to share experiences that lead to the harmonisation of procedures and auditing standards, and the design of common guidelines and best practices that make controls more useful and solvent on a global scale. EUROSAI has significant challenges ahead, to the extent that, firstly, the Organisation has assumed key responsibilities in promoting the audit community and, secondly, its members owe a firm commitment to their countries and citizens as their contribution to good governance. EUROSAI has developed its structures with stability and balance and has been able to progress on solid ground, looking to the future to progress in achieving its objectives, but without losing sight of what has been done in the past to consolidate and learn from the difficulties encountered and the achievements that have been made. Thus, at the present, it provides an open framework, a large open space for the promotion of professional cooperation and exchange. The efforts and achievements made in enhancing technical cooperation and furthering the study of matters of common interest are evident. The past is there to build knowledge, to advance by learning from both, the best and the worst. The future brings perspective, continuity and renewal to projects. Twenty- five years on, EUROSAI is present, but, fundamentally, it is future. A future that cannot rest on its laurels because much remains to be done from the responsibility assumed by its members to promote, support and implement this joint cooperation project which, with the contribution of all concerned, has been consolidated and has become a vehicle for performing INTOSAI’s initiatives and making said Organisation more visible in the European Region. I would like to end these words of commemoration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary by expressing my personal appreciation from my experience of over ten years as Director of the Secretariat of EUROSAI, almost half the Organisation’s lifetime in a direct role in its operation and seeing it grow. EUROSAI is not only a community of SAIs, it is not only a communion of shared interests that foster collaboration. EUROSAI is a living being in constant evolution, a heart that beats to the pulse of committed, generous and highly professional people who are always willing to learn and teach. It is a community where personal commitment makes cooperation real and effective in the deepest and noblest sense, beyond mere institutional protocol formalities. With these humble words, I would like to thank EUROSAI for the values with which it has reinforced my professional experience. I would also like to thank the colleagues I have had the fortune to meet on this journey, for the endearing support they have always given me and the wealth they have contributed to my personal growth. Undoubtedly, the great EUROSAI family is a genuine reflection of the motto that drives the spirit of INTOSAI: ‘ Experientia mutua omnibus prodest ”.