The European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions - ERUOSAI is currently constituted by 50 members, including 49 European Supreme Audit Institutions and the European Court of Auditors. EUROSAI supports international parallel audits, standardises audit methodology, coordinates cooperation with international institutions and conducts trainings. The following working groups and tasks forces of EUROSAI are focused on particular subject matter:
- Working Group on Information Technologies (IT), set up in 2002 (V Congress). Chair: SAI of Poland;
- Working Group on Environmental Audit, set up in 1999 (IV Congress). Chair: SAI of Estonia;
- Working Group on the Audit of Funds Allocated to Disasters and Catastrophes, set up as a Task Force in 2008 (VII Congress) and transformed into a Working Group in 2014 (IX Congress). Chair: SAI of Ukraine;
- Task Force on Audit and Ethics, set up in 2011 (XXXVIII Governing Board). Chair: SAI of Portugal;
- Task Force on Municipality Audit (EUROSAI TFMA), set up in 2016 (44th Governing Board). Chair: SAI of Lithuania.
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Every six years EUROSAI drafts a Strategic Plan aimed at improving the Organisation and facilitating its activities. The idea was brought up by the Supreme Audit Office of Poland. The first such document was adopted in 2011 when NIK presided EUROSAI. Now the Supreme Audit Office of Poland wants to be actively involved in the implementation of the next plan, approved by the EUROSAI Congress this year. The Polish initiative was recently appreciated by our partners - President Krzysztof Kwiatkowski was unanimously appointed Vice-President of EUROSAI.
The first meeting of the Governing Board’s Presidium, organized on the initiative of NIK in Cracow, is a very significant step, as previously EUROSAI was headed by the President only. The Turkish, Czech and Polish SAIs want to prepare a tactics for the best possible implementation of the Strategic Plan. The Presidium will, among others, divide objectives and tasks included in the Plan, improve principles of partnership communication and cooperate with working groups and task forces.
The established Coordination Team will work in order to facilitate an efficient implementation of the Strategic Plan. Currently the team comprises the Turkish, Czech and Polish SAIs as well as the Spanish Court of Auditors (as an observer), however representatives of other states are also to be included in the future. The Team together with the Presidium will function as a decision centre that will enable EUROSAI to implement its tasks even more effectively.
