2019 Final Report Transboundary movement of waste according to Basel Convention

Report ID: 328

The European Union has incorporated the Basel Convention into the Waste Shipment Regulation. It applies automatically and uniformly in the Member States of the European Union without the need for transposition into national law. The regulation is binding to all Member States in its entirety.

Partly based on the results of the 2008 cooperative audit performed on compliance of international obligations in the management of hazardous waste across the borders of their states, the SAIs of Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine agreed to re-conduct the joint international audit.

The purpose of the international audit was to establish the facts and assess the degree of compliance with the provisions of the Basel Convention for the cross-border movement of waste between Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland.

The audit was performed as performance with compliance elements. In addition, in defining the tasks of individual bodies in terms of the relevant legislation, it was evaluated how and to what extent the individual activities were performed. The audit therefore assessed not only the legality of procedures in transboundary movements of waste but also the efficiency of the activities performed and the overall effectiveness of the management system of waste transboundary movements.

Source: https://www.nku.gov.sk/documents/10272/1542112/Bazilejsk%C3%A1+dohoda+EN_2.pdf

Joint information on the results of transboundary movement of waste between Ukraine, the Republic of Slovakia and the Republic of Poland, 2004 - 2007, in the light of the Basel Convention

Report ID: 342

In  2007, the Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) of Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia carried out a cooperative audit on transboundary movement of waste between their countries. The audit was aimed to evaluate the degree of implementation by Ukraine, the Slovak Republic and the Republic of Poland of the provisions of the Basel Convention,  relevant regulation of the European Union and National Legislation in particular:

• Regularity of delivering the decisions permitting for transboundary movement of wastes and regularity and effectiveness of checks in this field.
• Regularity and effectiveness of control activities aiming at detection of incidents of illegal transboundary movements of waste.

The audit was a common initiative of the Supreme  Audit Institutions of  Poland, Slovakia and Ukreine within the framework of the activities of EUROSAI environmental working group. The audit  was launched on the basis of cooperative agreement among the three SAIs.

Source: http://old.ac-rada.gov.ua/img/files/auditukrsl.pdf

Joint Report on the Results of the International Audit on Waste Management and Utilization

Report ID: 366

The International Coordinated Audit on Waste Management and Utilization was conducted in the framework of the EUROSAI Working Group on the Audit of Funds Allocated to Disasters and Catastrophes. The purposes of the national audits – were to assess the state and efficiency of the waste management system in the countries participants of the audit.

The Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) of Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine participated in the audit. The SAI of Ukraine was the audit coordinator, The aim of national audits was to assess the state and effectiveness of the waste management system in countries of SAIs– participants of the international audit. The scope of the audit comprised from 2015-2018.

The results of the national audits conducted in the field of household, industrial and other hazardous waste, which can pose a serious threat to human health and the environment, as well as lead to environmental and man-made disasters, showed: for those countries, whose SAIs participated in the audit, common inconsistencies/gaps and problems within existing waste management systems

The results of the cooperative audit indicate the need to strengthen the governments’ efforts to move from the existing linear economy to a circular economy based on the maximum processing of waste generated in the territories of countries as well as the creation of an integrated waste management system in accordance with the EU “waste management hierarchy” in order to reduce the negative impact on the environment, public health and prevent the occurrence of environmental and man-made disasters.

Fuente:  EUROSAI Database of Audits -  https://www.eurosai.org/en/databases/audits/Joint-Report-on-the-Results-of-the-International-Audit-on-Waste-Management-and-Utilization/

Summary report of the results of the Cooperative Audit of the management of water sources in Mekong River Basin in line with the implementation of the SDGs

Report ID: 402

With the aim of affirming the role, position and efforts of ASOSAI Community in fulfilling the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,  a cooperative audit on the management of water resources in Mekong River Basin was  approved at the 55th ASOSAI Governing Board Meeting on July 27, 2020.

The SAIs of  Vietnam (coordinator), Thailand and Myanmar, three of the six countries that share the Mekong River Basin participated in the audit. The three SAIS worked closely together to reach a concensus to sign the Statement of Commitment and Terms of Reference for the cooperative audit on December 12, 2020.

The audit was performed in a context where  the whole basin is facing enormous challenges and negative impacts of climate changes, environmental degradation as well as unsustainable management, exploitation and use of water resources which potentially have a significant effect on the daily lives of more than 65 million people.

The audit was aimed to assess whether the countries concerned have fulfilled the commitments linked to the implementation of SDGs in the Mekong River Basin. The SAIs of Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar effectively applied the audit approaches which were modern and suitable with international audit practices such as IDI’s SDG Audit Model (ISAM) and Whole-of-Government approach.

The participating SAIs created a mechanism for information exchange and close cooperation with INTOSAI’s Knowledge Sharing Committee (KSC), experts from SAIs of Malaysia, Indonesia, the World Bank (WB) and Canadian Audit and Accountability Foundation (CAAF) in training activities for the audit.

Source: Kindly shared by the SAI of Vietnam- 

EU‑funding of urban waste water treatment plants in the Danube river basin: further efforts needed in helping Member States to achieve EU waste water policy objectives

Report ID: 423

The waste water and sewage sludge from urban agglomerations can affect the quality of Europe’s lakes, rivers, coastal waters, soils and groundwater. As a result the EU has adopted a series of directives and has also co-financed the building of urban waste water treatment plants through the Cohesion Fund and the European Regional Development Fund.