President of the SAO in Turkey
Press Release – March 14, 2011
On March 7–10, 2011, president of the SAO František Dohnal attended a meeting of president of the European Court of Auditors and presidents of the supreme audit institutions of EU candidate and potential EU candidate countries, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey. The meeting was organized in cooperation with the SIGMA (a joint initiative of the OECD and the EU, principally financed by the EU) and the joint working group on audit activities (a working group supporting cooperation of SAIs of EU countries and EU candidate and potential candidate countries).
Among the main topics discussed at the meeting were the independence of SAIs, relations of SAIs and national parliaments and audit quality. Representatives of supreme audit institutions also agreed on future joint activities within the period 2011–2012. President of the SAO was invited to the meeting by its organizers to give a presentation of the topic “Institutionary independence of the SAO”.