At the Congress of the European Organisation of the Supreme Audit Institutions EUROSAI this May, 50 European SAIs adopted the new Strategic Plan of the Organisation for 2017-2023, which is to facilitate its activities. In order to strengthen the Supreme Audit Institutions in Europe and help them to face new challenges, in the next six years EUROSAI will be focused on the implementation of two strategic goals. The first objective is to support effective, innovative and relevant audits by promoting and brokering professional cooperation; the second: to help SAIs deal with new opportunities and challenges by supporting and facilitating their institutional capacity development.
In line with the decision of the EUROSAI Governing Board, Riksrevisionen is to support NIK in coordinating the implementation of the second goal of the EUROSAI Strategic Plan.
Representatives of the management of the Swedish SAI, Peter Rostedt and Peter Danielsson visited NIK in order to define common tasks and their division among NIK and Riksrevisionen. The Polish Supreme Audit Office was represented by President Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, Vice-President Wojciech Kutyła and Advisor to the President - Jacek Jezierski. Participants of the meeting established the cooperation principles and agreed the communication with the Governing Board as well as other EUROSAI members. An operational plan was also discussed, which will enable for the implementation of the EUROSAI strategic objectives.
The new Governing Board of EUROSAI, which NIK vice-presides since the Congress in May, defined very ambitious goals for the implementation of the new Strategic Plan. The conducted discussions launched the implementation of the aforementioned programme.
The Swedish National Audit Office actively participates in the activities of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI):
Vice-Chair of the INTOSAI Capacity Building Committee (CBC; Chair - Republic of South Africa).The committee implements the second strategic goal of INTOSAI, which is to support SAIs in developing capacity to maximize their value and benefits to society;
Member of the CBC Subcommittee on Peer Reviews. NIK is also a member of the subcommittee. The Subcommittee on Peer Reviews drafted the ISSAI 5600 on peer reviews. The update of the document was endorsed at the INTOSAI Congress in Abu Dhabi in December 2016.
Leader of the Project Group on SAIs in Fragile Situations active within the CBC. This new initiative (the mandate of the group was approved at the last INTOSAI Congress in December 2016) is aimed at providing effective support with regard to the building of the state and institutional development in difficult situations, with particular focus on the impact of the 2030 Agenda on the development needs of such SAIs. The group is also supposed to collect good practices basing on the experience of SAIs and their partners. The practices will be presented as guidelines for SAIs, partnering organisations , INTOSAI regional groups and donators;
Member of the INTOSAI Steering Committee of the Professional Standards Committee (PSC). NIK is also a member of the Steering Committee as it chairs the Subcommittee on Internal Control Standards;
Member of the Financial Audit and Accounting Subcommittee (FAAS, Chair: United Arab Emirates). The subcommittee was established by merging the Financial Audit Subcommittee (FAS), chaired until 2013 by SAI Sweden, with the Accounting and Reporting Subcommittee;
Member of the Working Group on Financial Modernization and Regulatory Reform(WGFMRR; Chair: USA; the group is active within the third strategic goal of INTOSAI - Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Services). NIK is also a member of the group.
EUROSAI (European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions) - one of the INTOSAI regional groups, which associates 50 members, mainly Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) and the European Court of Auditors (ETO). EUROSAI promotes, inter alia, cooperation between its members, strives to unify the professional terminology, contributes to a better understanding of the public finance auditing.
