In the Work Plan of the Supreme Audit Office for the Year 2017 over 110 audits are comprised, including: the audit of the state budget execution in 2016 in 111 budget parts; the audit of the monetary policy guidelines for 2016; four international audits: three financial audits – of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), the CERN Pension Funds, and the Council of Europe, as well as the audit of selected organisational issues and performance audits in the Council of Europe; 105 audits dedicated to specific problems, out of which 86 have the status of coordinated audits. All audit proposals were classified in accordance with the COFOG classification, horizontal risk, the ISSAI categories and the government administration sectors. According to the last classification, the largest number of NIK audits planned for 2017 will be conducted in the following sectors: health, environment, transportation, public administration, education, public finance, agriculture, national defence and internal affairs. The audits in these sectors will constitute 61 percent of all those comprised in the Work Plan of the Supreme Audit Office for the Year 2017.
There are many entities in Poland that deal with the fight against corruption, and although no clear outcomes of their activities can be observed, the country has been rating higher and higher in the reports of the Transparency International. A vast majority of the Polish society, like in other European Union Member States, are convinced that the scale of corruption is big. Supreme Audit Institutions have been for many years engaging in the fight against corruption. The Working Group on the Fight against Corruption and Money Laundering, which is one of the structures of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions – INTOSAI, among one of its objectives for the years 2011-2016 listed the following: to define and promote a strategy to fight corruption and money laundering. At the moment, works have been finalised within the Group on guidelines on good governance of public assets. The document has been developed by a sub-group led by the Supreme Audit Office of Poland.
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