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Bilateral meeting with the Supreme Audit Institution of Austria

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President of the Court of Audit, Tomaž Vesel, and President of the Supreme Audit Institution of Austria, Margit Kraker, met in Vienna on 28 November 2018.

The outcome of the talks was an agreement on the joint audit implementation. While this year, close co-operation among the auditors of the two SAIs shall continue. With a view to strengthening the international co-operation and promoting activities involving both SAIs some changes were agreed. Meanwhile, information about the ongoing preparations for the next INTOSAI congress held in Moscow in 2019 was provided.

The heads of the SAIs exchanged experience relating to the current and follow-up audits, monitoring sustainable development goals, developing documents of sectoral analyses, communicating to the public, audit planning and quality assurance.