This year’s Congress of the European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI) is hosted by the Court of Audit of Portugal. The Head of this institution Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins took over the EUROSAI Presidency from President of the NIK Jacek Jezierski for the following three years, together with the symbol of the EUROSAI Presidency which is a glass polyhedron.
At the VIII EUROSAI Congress, the participants discussed the three following themes: (1) ”Challenges and Demands Faced by Public Managers Today”, (2) ”The Role of SAIs in the Accountability and Responsibilities of Public Managers” and (3) ”The Audit of the Independent Regulatory Agencies by SAIs”.
While handing the EUROSAI Presidency over to his successor, President of the NIK Jacek Jezierski briefly summarised the three years of the Polish Presidency (2008-2011). Its biggest achievement is the first EUROSAI strategic plan, in the elaboration of which over a dozen European SAIs were engaged. The document sets the mission and the vision of the organisation, as well as its goals and activities for the coming years (2011-2017). On Thursday 2 June, the Congress will take a decision on adoption of the strategic plan. President Jezierski thanked all EUROSAI Members for their fruitful cooperation in the works on the new strategy and emphasised that each Member had contributed to it its development. The Polish Presidency of EUROSAI also focused on activities aimed at the implementation of the recommendations of the VII EUROSAI Congress, held in Kraków in 2008, and the EUROSAI Training Strategy.
EUROSAI - European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions, one of seven Regional Working Groups of INTOSAI. EUROSAI gathers 50 audit bodies of European states and the European Court of Auditors. It promotes, among others, professional cooperation among its members, strives for harmonisation of public audit terminology and contributes to better understanding of public finance auditing.
