Thanh said in the first half of this year, the State Audit Office of Vietnam (SAV) conducted 76 audits and provided 143 audit reports and relevant documents for the National Assembly’s agencies, the Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission and competent authorities for investigation, inspection and supervision.
The SAV suggested removing, amending, supplementing and issuing 19 new legal documents that are unsuitable with the State’s regulations, thus promptly fixing “loopholes” in policies and mechanisms.
In the last half, the SAV will continue with audit activities as planned, issue a general audit report 2020 to submit to the legislature, give opinions on the State budget estimate, budget allocation plan for 2022, and build the 2022 and 2022-2024 audit plans.
About the state audit development strategy till 2030 that was adopted by the NA Standing Committee on August 12, 2020, Thanh highlighted three development pillars, including legal framework, human resources and technology along with seven major contents, including the apparatus organisation, human resources, audit quality improvement, global integration and cooperation, infrastructure development, scientific research on infrastructure, information and modern technology.
According to Thanh, the SAV also established a steering committee to realise the strategy.
Regarding cooperation orientations, both sides agreed to improve the efficiency of regular activities such as facilitating the exchange of high-ranking delegations, assisting the SAL in strengthening the institutions and organisational apparatus, and enhancing the capacity of public audit.
The SAV will send experts to Laos to help its auditors in the fields of State budget, basic construction and State-owned enterprises, as well as offer professional training in both Vietnam and Laos as suggested by the SAL.
The two audit sectors will continue with cooperation activities in 2022 and subsequent years, enhance online cooperation activities amid the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, and bring audit into the cooperation agreement between the two governments in the 2021-2025 period, firstly in 2022.
The two sides pledged to continue offering mutual support at multilateral forums, especially within the framework of the Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI), the ASEAN Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASEANSAI), and the cooperation forum of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam.
They also agreed to propose their respective government and legislature add ASEANSAI cooperation contents into the annual cooperation agreement between the Vietnamese and Lao governments.
