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SAI and Parliamentary Audit Committee Relations – Estonian Experience

TÕNIS SAAR Director of Corporate Services National Audit Office of Estonia. SAI and Parliamentary Audit Committee Relations – Estonian Experience. REPORTING TO PARLIAMENT.

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SAI and Parliamentary Audit Committee Relations – Estonian Experience

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  1. TÕNIS SAAR Director of Corporate Services National Audit Office of Estonia SAI and Parliamentary Audit Committee Relations – Estonian Experience

  2. REPORTING TO PARLIAMENT • no formal procedure of reporting to the Riigikogu (parliament), except an annual report by the AG until 2002 Act of the NAOE • no special committee to deal with the reports of NAOE until 2004 • need for such committee evident, but it took time and effort to establish it

  3. Select Committee on the Control of State Budget • established in February 2004 • objective – to ensure the regularity, economy, efficiency and effectivenessof use of the state assets and budgetary funds by the Government and to execute control over the execution of the state budget in cooperation with the NAOE • sessions of the Committee open to public • not a standing, but select committee • 6 members from different parties, both from coalition and opposition, chaired by the representative of the oppositon • reports to the Riigikogu at least once a year

  4. Duties of the Select Committee • to review the consolidated report on the previous financial year, and the Auditor's Report thereof • to review issues concerning auditing of the public sector • to discuss audit reports and overviews by the NAOE and important questions raised by the Auditor General • to inform the NAOE about problems communicated to members of the Committee by authorities and private persons • to form an opinion, based on the information received from the NAOE, on cases of obstruction of its activities

  5. Riigikogu Select Committee and the NAOE • all reports of the NAOE submitted to the Committee • the Committee selects reports that need further discussion • the Committee asks auditee or other relevant person to the hearing, when necessary, a representative of the NAOE participates • over two years of good cooperation between the committee and the NAOE

  6. How to make cooperation of Committee and NAOE more effective? • to change its status - into a standing committee • to give more time for review and discussion of the audit reports of NAOE • to have more frequent and thorough hearings of government officials • to prepare Committee’s own recommendations and their follow-up • to record the Committee’s sessions and improve public access

  7. How can the NAOE work be improved? • by improving the quality of the audit reports of the NAOE • by providing the parliament with information that is most needed • by laying more emphasis on performance audit in order to study programme’s outcomes • by carring out audits and overviews with the objective to disseminate best practice

  8. Thank you

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