EUROSAI. Magazine N21 - 2015

EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS Eurosai Activities 9 www.eurosai.org · N.º 21 - 2015 General supported the idea of the self- assessment since it would help to define the content of the mandate letter to the evaluator in a more democratic way, thus enabling to address the concerns of all the members of EUROSAI. The President of the European Court of Auditors (ECA), Mr. Vítor Caldeira, shared the ECA’s experience of carrying out a self-assessment prior to an evaluation, and indicated that the independent evaluator was not limited by the results of this first phase. Regarding the dissemination of the outcome of the self- assessment, he suggested this to be done in the form of an executive summary. This idea was supported by Ms. Stuiveling. Items 8 and 9.— In the framework of the implementation of the EUROSAI Strategic Plan, Goal Team 1 (Chair: SAI of Hungary), Goal Team 2 (Chair: SAI of Germany), Goal Team 3 (Chair: SAI of the Czech Republic) and Goal Team 4 (Chair: SAI of The Netherlands) presented the progress made since the last GB meeting in June 2014, together with information on future projects and particular issues for discussions. The presentations were followed by a general discussion on the outcomes of the presentations. For example, the Chair of GT2 asked if criteria for choosing external partners were needed and if so, what they should be. The Chair of GT3 discussed how to persuade EUROSAI members to contribute to the databases of audits and products and how to make those databases popular in our community. The President of the Czech Supreme Audit Office and chair of GT3, Mr. Miloslav Kala invited all SAIs to contribute to the database of audits. This way it would be possible to contribute to effective dissemination and accessibility of information. Items 10 and 11.— The 2014-2015 Activity Reports of the EUROSAI Working Groups on IT Audit (Chair: SAI of Poland) and Environmental Auditing (Chair: SAI of Estonia); Audit of Funds Allocated to Disasters and Catastrophes (Chair: SAI of Ukraine) and the Task Force on and “Audit & Ethics” (Chair: SAI of Portugal) were presented to the Governing Board; as well as of the progress made by the “Monitoring Committee for setting up and operating the Electronic Data Base on Good Practices” (Chair: SAI of Hungary). They were followed by a general discussion on the outcomes of the presentations, mainly focusing on the marketing of their activities to make the most of all this knowledge within those Working Groups and the Task Force. Mr. Peter-Kristian Foss, Auditor General of the SAI of Norway, requested information on the level of use of the databases of the website. Since the databases had just been launched at the time of the 43rd GB meeting, such information will be provided at the next GB meeting. Item 12.— The Governing Board was informed by the representative of the SAI of Israel, Mr. Philippe Elie Mersel, on the next Young EUROSAI in November 2015 and its topic: “SAI and I”. He kindly invited the GB members to attend a parallel programme to the event. Item 13.— The GB was informed about the preparations of the X th EUROSAI Congress by the President of the SAI of Turkey, Mr. Recai 43 rd EUROSAI Governing Board Meeting (Helsinki)