Joint Final Report on II Audit of Implementation of Provisions of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area ( The Helsinki Convention) Pollution fron Ships in the Baltic Sea

Report ID: 273

In 2000, the SAIs of Estonia, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russian and Sweden conducted a parallel audit of implementation of article 6 of the Helsinki Convention concerning pollution from land-based sources.

 2004, a second audit was  promoted by EUROSAI WGEA. and conducted by the Supreme Audit Institutions of  Denmark (coordinator), Estonia, Finland, The German Federal Court of Audit, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the Russian Federation on preparedness to combat pollution from ships in the Baltic Sea.

The audit was aimed to assess whether the national authorities in the respective countries comply with the provisions of the Helsinki Conventions (articles 8, 13, 14,16 )  and it was performed as a performance and compliance audit.

Source: https://www.riigikontroll.ee/LinkClick.aspx? fileticket=coXnP9jDQso%3D&tabid=220&mid=617&language=ru-RU

Report on the Audit of the Management and Control Systems of the EU Structural Funds

Report ID: 274

In 2006, the SAIs of  Austria, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia decided to carry out a coordinated audit to the Management and Control Systems of the EU Structural Funds. The audit objective was to assess the compliance of participating countries’ activities for the implementation of selected operational programs co-financed from the ERDF with the requirements of the Community law and their respective national law.

The scope of the audit covered the functioning of the internal control system implemented in the budget year of 2007 in one or several priority axis, operation or program selected by the individual SAIs, which get support to implement the “convergence” objective from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2007–2013. 

SOURCE: https://www.nku.cz/en/audit/coordinated-audits/

Strengthening Procurement Audit Practices & Compliance in the Caribbean - Compendium Report of Collaborative Procurement Audits Undertaken in Select Caribbean Countries

Report ID: 279

With the joint support of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), CAROSAI launched an initiative for collaborative audits on procurement. The SAIs of  Bahamas, Guyana, Suriname, Barbados, Montserrat, St Kitts, Curacao and Belize conducted the collaborative audit in their respective countries. The audits were conducted simultaneously as part of a knowledge-sharing approach in reviewing procurement activities. The purpose of these audits was to assess the general adequacy of procurement practices across the region.

The report aims to share audit methodologies and approaches as well as  to serve as a tool for knowledge-sharing and a baseline for procurement audit in the Caribbean providing insights on government’s engagement and compliance with procurement rules and recommendations for enhanced procurement practices.

Source: carosai.org/strengthening-procurement-audit-practices-compliance-in-the-caribbean-compendium-report-of-collaborative-procurement-audits-undertaken-in-select-caribbean-countries/

Report on the Coordinated Audit carried out by NKÚ and BRH on VAT under the mini one-stop shop scheme

Report ID: 283

For many years already, the Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) of the Czech Republic  and the Federal Republic of Germany have successfully cooperated in the field of VAT and have also carried out two coordinated audits.

The two SAIs decided to address the topic of e-commerce and VAT for the first time,
 taking up current economic developments and carried out a cooperative audit.

The audit subject was the taxation of digital services supplied by EU companies to private
consumers in the European Union. The audit covered the period from 1 January 2015 to 30 June 2017.

The audit objective was to study
• how the tax authorities of the two countries have complied with their EU obligation to
implement MOSS;
• emerging difficulties in implementation; and
• the extent to which the MOSS system is suitable for ensuring VAT revenue collection.
Both SAIs summarised their findings in national reports and jointly drafted the jpint report on that basis.

SOURCE: https://www.nku.cz/assets/publications-documents/other-publications/joint-report-vat-under-moss-scheme-2019-en.pdf

Auditoría Coordinada Gobernanza de Fronteras – Sumario Ejecutivo con enfoque ambiental

Report ID: 286

En el marco de las actividades del Comité de Creación de Capacidades (CCC) de la Organización Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Entidades Fiscalizadoras Superiores (OLACEFS), las EFS de Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil (EFS Coordinadora), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, México, Paraguay, Perú y República Dominicana realizaron una auditoría coordinada a  para evaluar el nivel de implementación de buenas prácticas de gobernanza en las políticas de seguridad pública y desarrollo en las regiones fronterizas de sus respectivo países, con el fin de mejorar la implementación y gestión de acciones gubernamentales en estas regiones.

Esta auditoría contó con el apoyo técnico de la Cooperación Alemana a través de GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaf für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH – como parte del proyecto Fortalecimiento del Control Externo en el Área Ambiental, que se está implementando en asociación con la EFS de Brasil y la OLACEFS.

Para este trabajo, las EFS participantes aplicaron el Índice de Gobernanza de Políticas Nacionales de Fronteras (iGPNFron) y el informe conjunto se centra en la calidad de los factores estructurales vinculados a la gobernanza de las políticas nacionales de fronteras y no en el desempeño de la gestión de estas políticas.

FUENTE: https://www.olacefs.com/auditorias-coordinadas/