As you know, the INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing has been very active for the past nine years. A growing number of SAIs became active in our Working Group or in regional groups and maybe you noticed our questionnaires on environmental auditing. The INTOSAI Working Group has developed many activities and offers guidance in all kind of formats: from documents and booklets to a video, a CD ROM and a website. At INCOSAI XVII in Korea, I will present the achievements of the Working Group between 1999 and 2001 and the new ideas for 2002-2004 in the first General Plenary Session (October 23). Of course this will only give you a brief impression. Therefore, during the first half of the INCOSAI XVII, the Working Group will have an Information Centre with exposition in the conference centre, in which the Working Group activities and the developments in environmental auditing are presented. Moreover the main products of the Working Group will be available for all delegates. We are very grateful to the SAI of Korea to provide us with the Moderato Room. I invite you to visit us during INCOSAI XVII in Seoul. My staff and I are looking forward to welcome you personally there!

Saskia J Stuiveling,
President of the Netherlands Court of Audit and
Chair of the INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing

The Working Group developed a number of products relevant to the INTOSAI community, that are available to you at INCOSAI XVII:

All Working Group documents will be available at the Information centre of the Working Group in the Moderato Room. There you will also find reports of some audits of international environmental accords by SAIs.

The Netherlands Court of Audit has been the Chair of the INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing for nine years now. At the 48^th Meeting of the INTOSAI Governing Board we will propose to resign as Chair, as we already announced at the previous INCOSAI. At the 7^th meeting, the INTOSAI Working Group decided to nominate Canada as candidate for the Chair. We hope that the SAI of Canada will be accepted as the new Chair at the 49^thMeeting of the INTOSAI Governing Board. The Netherlands Court of Audit will step down as Chair but will stay on as member of the Working Group.

The INTOSAI Working Group grew rapidly since INCOSAI XVI in Uruguay. At this moment there are 37 member SAIs. The main important activity of the Working Group between 1999 and 2001 was to stimulate a larger involvement of the INTOSAI-regions. The strategy of the Working Group met with enthusiasm in the regions. By the end of 2000, the INTOSAI regions AFROSAI, ARABOSAI, ASOSAI, EUROSAI, SPASAI and OLACEFS had developed their own regional Working Groups on Environmental Auditing, or other ways to co-operate. The same is the case for the SAIs of the USA and Canada.

If you are interested, please contact the regional working groups:

About the Green Lines

Green Lines is the electronic news bulletin of the INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing. It is distributed to the members of the Working Group and to others interested. If you want to keep informed, you can ask us to place you on the mailing list: environmental.auditing@oag-bvg.gc.ca.

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