Minutes of the I meeting of the EUROSAI Training Committee, Copenhagen (Denmark), 10 May, 2000

This was the first meeting of the committee created by the EUROSAI Governing Board's resolution in Madrid in February 2000. The Danish Rigsrevisionen kindly agreed to host the meeting in Copenhagen.

Attendees:

• representatives of the eight SAI members of the committee (Denmark, host of the meeting; France; Spain , co-presidents of the committee; Czech Republic; Germany; Poland; Portugal; United Kingdom);

• Norway - IDI - as observer.

A list of the participants is annexed.

The main points of the meeting were as follows:

I Setting up the web pages about training

1. As decided in Madrid, the French Cour des comptes will host the web pages about training. The pages will be linked to the EUROSAI web site and will be in English.

2. The pages' structure, as proposed by the Danish Rigsrevisionen and following discussion, will be as follows:

1. Welcome to EUROSAI's training site
   ( Welcome message plus text of resolutions adopted by the Governing Board about training...)

2. News.

3. Information about training.
   Three types of information will be provided :

• Information about training activities organised by EUROSAI for its members

• Information about national training activities open to EUROSAI members.

• National training informations, given by each SAI which is willing, by a link from the EUROSAI website to national websites.

4. Programmes
   Links to specific training programmes within European and international organisations (such as: EU, CEEC, IDI, SIGMA, OLACEFS, and other regional groupings of SAIs).

5. Facts about SAIs
   The page on the SAIs' national sites will be accessible through a link from the EUROSAI web pages. The page will show, for each SAI that is willing, information about training organisation's services, national training budget, methodology...

6. Contacts
   Information about the EUROSAI training committee members (contact numbers...)

3. The technical link between France and Spain will be set up very soon and, after a test period with some SAIs, the web training pages will be open next July.

4. A working group, consisting of the Danish, French and Spanish SAIs, will follow up of the web site's implementation.

II Co-operation with IDI

5. The Norwegian IDI delegation, which had been invited to the meeting as an observer, presented the IDI 2001-2006 Strategic Plan and the current Long Term Regional Training Programme ( LRТР,1996-2000) and gave examples of other training committees and institutions, some of them already having web training sites (ASOSAI).The current IDI LRТР, which is aiming at building capacity and infrastructure in national SAIs and within regional working groups, has not been carried out in EUROSAI.

6. IDI proposes to deliver this programme to SAIs of Central and Eastern European Countries in cooperation with EUROSAI, as it has been done in other INTOSAI regions. A training programme of up to 14 weeks, for a maximum of 25 participants could be set up by IDI for these SAIs. This would require appropriate funding, a practical working language solution and cooperation/coordination with other institutions.

7. The training committee decided to accept this offer and established a working group to start preparations for the LTRТР. Will participate to this group the SAIs of the Czech Republic, Polish and United Kingdom, in cooperation with the IDI Secretariat in Norway.

III ЕURОSАl's first training event

8. The following decisions, as proposed by the French Cour des comptes, have been taken:

• me first training event's topic, chosen from the most requested themes, will be "use of IT techniques in auditing";

• the training session will be two days of sharing experiences;

• the session will be organised at the end of January 2001;

• the Polish and Czech SAIs will look at the possibility of organising this session in their countries;

• in preparation for this event a working group was created, composed of the Czech, Polish, Portuguese and German SAIs. The United Kingdom's NAO would like to join the group informally.

IV Organisation of the work of the EUROSAI Training Committee

9. In order to work quickly and efficiently, as proposed by the French Cour des comptes, the work will be organised as follows:

• three working groups, as already outlined, will be created:

• one to follow up of the training web pages' implementation;

• one to prepare the first EUROSAI event;

• one to follow up links with IDI and other organisations.

• the next EUROSAI training committee, which will take place in London next October, will be the only one before the next Governing Board meeting. The meeting's objective will be:

• to follow up the working groups' work;

• the preparation of the elements to be submitted to the next Governing Board, as set out in the Madrid resolution.

• the French Cour des comptes will be in charge of the working groups' secretariat.

Training Committee 1 st meeting
ATTENDEES

France:
Laurence Fradin
Philippe Milhat
Thierry Carreno

Spain:
Marta Fernandez-Pirla

UК:
Bruсе Веdwеll
Richard Maggs

Poland:
Aleksandra Kukula
Jacek Jezierski

Czech Republic:
Jiri Eishier

Germany:
Elke Marschner

Portugal:
Luis Silva Rosa
José Manuel Martins

Norway:
Else Karin Kristensen
Magnus Borge

Denmark:
Steen Веrnt Jensen
Nanna Henning
Anina E. Oksbjerg