The 45th meeting of the Governing Board of the European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions, which currently associates 50 members - 49 national SAIs and the European Court of Auditors (ECA), took place in Moldova. Representatives of among others Finland, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and the ECA came to Chișinău to discuss the draft EUROSAI Strategic Plan for the upcoming years and to decide on further activities.
In order to strengthen the European SAIs and to help them tackle new issues and challenges in the next six years, EUROSAI decided to focus its activities primarily on the implementation of two strategic goals. At first - to support effective, innovative and relevant audits by promoting and brokering professional cooperation. Secondly - to help SAIs deal with new opportunities and challenges by supporting and facilitating their institutional capacity development.
Until the year 2023 EUROSAI plans to develop in the direction that corresponds with particular development goals of the Member States, while taking into account various social and administrative contexts in which they operate and the available resources. Such transformation seems inevitable. EUROSAI will support the member SAIs in conducting high quality audits, as well as strengthening accountability and transparency of authorities and public sector entities in their states. The EUROSAI Strategic Plan 2017-2023 includes a number of changes concerning the structure and management of EUROSAI, however the mission, vision and values of the organization remain mostly the same.
NIK participated in the preparation of both the first EUROSAI Strategic Plan for 2011-2017, as well as the one being currently subject to discussions.
In Chișinău President Kwiatkowski met with among others the Polish Ambassador, Artur Michalski, President of the Netherlands Court of Audit, Arno Visser, President of the Turkish Court of Accounts, Seyit Ahmet Baş, as well as the President of the Court of Accounts of Moldova, Veaceslav Untila.
NIK actively cooperates with other Supreme Audit institutions. A month ago an international EUROSAI Air Quality Meeting was organised in Kraków, during which the participants discussed the preparation to the European audit related to air quality. The main objective of the meeting was to establish common audit methodology, so as to obtain comparable results. The audit is being coordinated by the Netherlands Court of Accounts and NIK. The audit participants are both EU Member States (Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Spain), as well as those from outside the EU structures (Albania, Georgia, Israel, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Switzerland). The European Court of Auditors has also joined the initiative. The final report with conclusions and recommendations will be presented in 2018.
