Members of the Saeima, rejecting the motion of the “Progressive” members to allow the State Audit Office to investigate in parliament, supported the amendments to the Law on the State Audit Office in the final reading on Thursday .
Currently, the law on the State Audit Office states that the State Audit Office does not audit the Saeima. The “progressives” wanted this rule to be issued, thus giving the opportunity to develop a related regulation in the procedural order of the Saeima, which would give the right to the State Audit Office to investigate in parliament.
According to the law, all states, municipalities, their capital companies and other audited entities are subject to audits by the State Audit Office, except for the Saeima. “But also the Saeima, although it is located at the highest hierarchical level, is nonetheless systematically integrated into the state’s management system. There is no reason for the exception and it goes against the principle of good governance,” according to parliamentarians.
The proposal for changes to the state investigation law was submitted by “Progressive” MPs Jana Simanovska, Ervins Labanovskis, Skaidrīte Ābrama, Edmunds Cepurītis and Leila Rasima. However, the Saeima rejected this proposal.
On the other hand, the supported changes to the State Audit Law mandate that from 2025 the State Audit Office will issue one audit report instead of 27 separate financial audit reports.
The philosophy of the draft law explains that its purpose is to simplify the financial audit process of the State Audit Office, redirecting the saved resources to the performance of efficiency and compliance audits, as well as to make the rule of law more – agree with the changes made. to the Law on Budget and Financial Management.
After the adoption of the draft law, the State Audit Office, when auditing the consolidated annual financial report or KSGP, from 2025 will no longer have to issue an opinion and an audit report on each of the reports from 14 ministries and 12 central state institutions, but one must create an audit report.
The State Audit Office will continue to conduct random audit procedures in ministries, their subsidiary institutions and central state institutions, and the information obtained during the audit will be used to give an opinion on the correctness of the KSGP . The managers of the relevant institutions will be informed about the results of the inspections, both identifying the defects found and providing information about the opinions of the inspectors, which would help to improve the -internal control system.
Several other facts are also listed in the justification of the changes, which, in the opinion of politicians, indicate that the State Audit Office has sufficient reasons to give the best way to carry out financial audits, to achieve the objective of verifying the correctness of the preparation of annual reports with less investment in resources.
The costs necessary to implement the objectives set in the draft law will be small, so it will be possible to cover them from the current annual budget of the State Audit Office and the State Treasury Department, the deputies sure
2024-11-21 09:30:00
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