December 11th 2019, Academy of Justice within its Initial Training Program for the newly appointed judges and prosecutors conducted the visit at the National Audit Office.
Purpose of this visit/ training was that the newly appointed judges and prosecutors establish a clear overview about the mandate, legal basis, role, organizational structure and responsibilities of the National audit Office.
Within the scope of this visit/ training, Director of the National Audit Office made a presentation on its establishment, mandate and development, and its cooperation with justice bodies related to the common issues. Also, in this training the beneficiaries were informed about the challenges and difficulties of the institution in realizing its mandate in compliance with the international standards, and in reference to the Code of Ethics, as well as responsibilities of this institution in carrying out annual auditing to other state institutions like the Ministries, Municipalities, Executive and carrying out audit upon request of Independent Agencies and donors who assists with funds.
It further elaborated on independence of the National Audit Office, internal and external functions of auditing, as well as auditing of compliance and performance aiming approval of funds and provision of the public trust of the people for the funds that are spent.
This training provided space for the newly appointed judges and prosecutors to discuss and raise questions of interest related to cooperation of the judiciary with the NAO, focusing on the aspect of institutional reporting to the NAO, access for the interests of publication of reports, and cases when NOA may find violations and criminal offences of the institutions on which they present financial reports.
Beneficiaries of this training were the newly appointed judges (generation VII) and prosecutors (generation VIII) 2019-2020.
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