AUDITORÍA COORDINADA DE ÁREAS PROTEGIDAS (2ª edición) - RESUMEN EJECUTIVO

Report ID: 382

La Comisión Técnica Especial de Medio Ambiente (COMTEMA) de la Organización de Entidades Fiscalizadoras Superiores de América Latina y el Caribe (OLACEFS) realizó la segunda edición de la Auditoría Coordinada sobre Áreas Protegidas entre 2019 y 2020. ( véase el resumen de la primera edición: https://intosai-cooperativeaudits.org/catalog/report/coordinated-audit-of-protected-areas-1st-edition-executive-summary).

La auditoría fue coordinada por el Tribunal Federal de Cuentas (TCU-Brasil) y contó con la participación de Entidades Fiscalizadoras Superiores (EFS) de 17 países: 15 de América Latina y el Caribe y 2 de Europa: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Ecuador, España, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Paraguay, Perú, Portugal y República Dominicana. Además, participaron en la fiscalización 9 entidades fiscalizadoras subnacionales: 8 tribunales de cuentas estatales brasileños de la región amazónica y un tribunal de cuentas provincial argentino.

La auditoría contó con el apoyo del Comité de Creación de Capacidades (CCC) de la OLACEFS para el ciclo de formación, y también contó con el apoyo de la Cooperación Alemana a través de la GIZ, en el marco del Proyecto Regional de Fortalecimiento del Control Externo en el Área Ambiental.

Esta segunda edición de la Auditoría Coordinada de Áreas Protegidas (ACAP), tuvo como objetivo evaluar el nivel de implementación y gestión de las áreas protegidas en los países de América Latina, el Caribe y la Península Ibérica, así como el progreso de estos países en el cumplimiento de la Meta 11 de Aichi del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CDB) y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) 14 y 15 de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible. 

Se utilizó el Índice de Implantación y Gestión de Áreas Protegidas (Indimapa). Este permite evaluar las áreas protegidas en tres escalas de implementación y gestión (baja, media y alta) mediante 13 indicadores, que se evalúan según una escala de 0 a 3.

De los 17 países participantes, 11 también participaron en la primera edición de la auditoría coordinada, realizada en 2014 y 2015, que proporcionó los datos de referencia para el análisis comparativo de los avances y retrocesos en la implantación y gestión de las áreas protegidas.

Fuente: https://portal.tcu.gov.br/biblioteca-digital/auditoria-coordenada-em-areas-protegidas-2-edicao.htm
 

Coordinated Audit on “Transboundary movements of waste in the light of the Basel Convention provisions” by the Supreme Audit Institutions of Poland, Slovak Republic and Ukraine (2nd Edition)

Report ID: 390

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.

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 on compliance of international obligations in the management of hazardous waste across the borders of their states.

Taking into consideration some changes in the provision and in order to assess the state of implementation of recommendations included in the first audit, as well as assessing the scope of compliance with the provisions of the “Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal”, the SAIs of Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine agreed to re-conduct the joint international audit within the activities of the EUROSAI Working Group on the Audit of Funds Allocated to Disasters and Catastrophes.

The Coordinator of the audit was the Supreme Audit Office of the Republic of Poland. Period covered by the audit 2015 – 2019 Audits were conducted in Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine in the second half of 2019.

The audit objective was to assess the reliability and effectiveness of activities carried out by authorities responsible for transboundary movements of wastes, including within the international cooperation, in particular: y national authorities competent for auditing procedures applied in transboundary movements of wastes; y national environmental protection authorities competent for auditing entities that dispatch or receive wastes from other countries; y national authorities, in particular border authorities, customs services etc., in the scope of auditing the compliance of the notified type of wastes with the actual content of cargo transported across the border.

Source: https://www.nku.gov.sk/documents/10272/1542112/Final+report+Pol-Slo-Ukr-Ang+2021+v7.pdf

The report of the first edition of the audit is available at:  https://intosai-cooperativeaudits.org/catalog/report/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

The national report issued by SAI Slovakia on this second audit is available at: https://intosai-cooperativeaudits.org/catalog/report/2019-final-report-transboundary-movement-of-waste-according-to-basel-convention

Managing interventions in case of sudden pollution in the Adriatic sea – International Parallel Audit

Report ID: 391

From November 2019 until June 2021, the Supreme Audit Institutions of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro and Slovenia conducted an international parallel audit on managing interventions in case of sudden pollution in the Adriatic Sea.

As a result, the SAIs signed a Joint statement addressing the urgency to adopt measures aimed at strengthening prevention and management response systems in the case of marine pollution. The environmental risk requires cross-border cooperation for emergency management to be implemented through the adoption of a common emergency response plan for all the States bordering the Adriatic Sea and the organisation of joint exercise programs.

The document is a compendium of short summaries of individual audit reports published by contributing SAIs. Full audit reports and other materials of each individual SAI can be found by following the links provided after each short summary.

Source: https://www.rs-rs.si/en/public-media/news/news/meeting-of-heads-of-supreme-audit-institutions-in-trieste-to-sign-a-joint-statement/

Joint Report on Management of Plastic Waste in Europe

Report ID: 415

Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) are important actors overseeing the national implementation of environmental policies by conducting independent audits of government activities. The European association of SAIs is called EUROSAI. One of its working groups is theEUROSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing (EUROSAI WGEA), whose aim is to enhance the capacity of SAIs for auditing government environmental policies, to promote cooperation and to exchange knowledge and experiences on the subject among SAIs. V This joint report is a comprehensive summary of audits on plastic waste performed by12SAIs in following countries: Republic of Albania, Republic of Bulgaria, Hungary, Republic of Malta, Republic of Moldova, Republic of North Macedonia, Republic of Poland, Portuguese Republic, Romania, Republic of Serbia, Slovak Republic and Republic of Turkey7. These 12 national SAIs are members of the EUROSAI WGEA. This audit on plastic waste was coordinated by the SAI of Poland –NIK, in line with the INTOSAI Framework of Professional Pronouncements GUID 9000 Cooperative Audits between SAIs 

Source: https://www.bulnao.government.bg/bg/novini/pressyobshteniq/upravlenieto-na-plastmasovite-otpadci-be-oditirano-ot-voi-v-12-evropejski-strani/