2024-05-28
On 27-28 May, the XII EUROSAI Congress and the 61st and 62nd Governing Board meetings were held remotely, during which the National Audit Office was appointed as the second Vice President of EUROSAI.
"I am honoured and grateful for the opportunity offered to the National Audit Office to serve as the Second Vice-President of EUROSAI. I consider this also to be a recognition of our institution's performance as a co-leader of the EUROSAI Strategic Goal 1 "Professional Cooperation". I am delighted to take on this responsibility and I hope that these new developments will bring great moments for all of us", said Auditor General Mindaugas Macijauskas at the meeting.
The 61st EUROSAI Governing Board Meeting, which took place before the XII Congress, invited participants to review the work of the organisation over the recent years, the implementation of strategic goals, the activities of the working groups, and the financial and other cooperation issues.
The EUROSAI Congress, which is held every three years, handed over the Presidency of the organisation, elected the organisers of the next Congress, the new members of the Governing Board and the auditors of the organisation, reviewed EUROSAI's work during the whole of the current strategic period 2017-2024, and discussed other topical issues and plans for the organisation's new strategic period 2024-2030.
During the remote meeting, Mindaugas Macijauskas presented the activities and progress of the National Audit Office-led EUROSAI Strategic Goal 1 and the Task Force on Municipality Audit (TFMA) during the strategic period 2017-2024, as well as the new developments for the upcoming strategic period, including the transfer of the TFMA chairmanship to the Latvian supreme audit institution and the restructuring of the TFMA's format into a working group which will enable the TFMA to operate on a broader scale of auditing practices.
Founded in 1990, EUROSAI is the organisation for external public auditing in European countries, bringing together 51 supreme audit institutions and the European Court of Auditors. Its Governing Board consists of eight members, four of whom are elected for a six-year term. At the XI EUROSAI Congress in 2021, the National Audit Office was elected to the EUROSAI Governing Board for a six-year term after a 16-year break, and at this year's meeting, it was appointed to serve as the organisation's Second Vice-President.