NIK is 95 years old now

The Supreme Audit Office celebrates the 95^th anniversary of its establishment. The celebration began when wreaths were laid at the monuments of people who brought NIK into being - Marshall Piłsudski, Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Józef Higersberger. Afterwards a seminar of the Council of NIK was held in the Polish Sejm. It was attended among others by the Marshals of the Sejm and Senate, the Head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, members of the Sejm and of the Senate, Presidents of the Constitutional Tribunal, Heads of the Supreme Court and of the Supreme Administrative Court and the Prosecutor General. The session of the NIK Council was chaired by President of the Supreme Audit Office Krzysztof Kwiatkowski. Full video record of the meeting is available on the Sejm website: sejm.gov.pl

Reportage from the celebration of the 95^th anniversary of the establishment of NIK

95th anniversary

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Soon after Poland regained its independence in 1989, NIK was headed by the late prof. Walerian Pańko who gradually transformed the Polish SAI into a body serving the state and its citizens. After his death, the President of NIK was the late prof. Lech Kaczyński who established the modern state audit with the help of the Act on the Supreme Audit Office.

On 7 February 2014, in NIK headquarters a commemorative plaque was unveiled in memory of Walerian Pańko, the first President of NIK in the Third Republic of Poland. That event together with the 95^th jubilee of the establishment of NIK are to commemorate the 25^th anniversary of democratic transformations in Poland.

NIK also had outstanding auditors, such as the late Michał Falzmann or the late Władysław Stasiak.

NIK President Krzysztof Kwiatkowski announced the first edition of the award of Władysław Stasiak, inspector and former NIK department director who died tragically in the Smoleńsk air crash. NIK wants to grant this award to the persons who made their environment more secure and citizen-friendly, regardless of political divisions. All NIK employees may point candidates for the award. The Award Chapter includes members of the NIK Council and Ms Barbara Stasiak, widow of the late Władysław Stasiak. The winner will receive the award (a commemorative statuette) from the hands of the President of NIK and Ms Barbara Stasiak. The award will be handed over on a yearly basis on the occasion of future anniversaries of NIK’s establishment.