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Volume 5, Number 3, October 2001

Information bulletin

for the members of the Intosai Working Group on Environmental Auditing

Volume 5, Number 3, oktober 2001

Introduction

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

Visit the Environmental auditing information centre and exposition

From Sunday 21 October to Wednesday 24 October, the INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing kindly invites you to visit their exposition in the Moderato Room in the Conference Centre. In the exposition you will find:

a poster exposition with contributions of 18 SAIs from all INTOSAI regions. The posters give an actual and colourful impression of the practise of environmental auditing by SAIs. The Working Group is very grateful to these SAIs for developing the informative and well designed posters. For more details see the catalogue attached;
your free copy of the CD ROM "Environmental auditing at work". It is produced by the Working Group especially for INCOSAI XVII, with all kinds of information on the Working Group and on environmental auditing (see the separate voucher);
computers to explore the CD ROM yourself, and to visit our new homepage on INTERNET . Assistance on the use of these products is available;
free copies of all other Working Group products;
the Staff of the Working Group to answer all your questions on environmental auditing and the Working Group.

We hope to welcome you in the Moderato Room!

CD-ROM

Especially for INCOSAI XVII the INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing developed the CD-ROM "Environmental Auditing at work". It includes a copy of the website for those who have no access to INTERNET, background information on the Working Group, all Working Group products in the various INTOSAI languages, two videos on environmental auditing and much more. It is available at INCOSAI XVII in Korea for all delegates. With the voucher attached you can get your free copy at the Environmental Auditing Information Centre in the Moderato Room. Open Sunday 21 October to Wednesday 24 October.

Products of the Working Group

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

The INTOSAI Booklet "Guidance on conducting audits of activities with an environmental perspective";
The INTOSAI Booklet "How to co-operate on the audit of international accords with an environmental perspective";
The paper "The audit of International Environmental Accords" is a follow-up to this booklet;
The restructured and updated website of the Working Group. New address: www.environmental-auditing.org;
The on-line bibliography of environmental audit reports, with more than 1200 reports from SAIs all over the world;
The Working Group document on "Sustainable Development";
The Working Group document on "The results of the third INTOSAI survey on environmental auditing". Also the comparable paper on the results of the second survey(1998) is still available;
The Working Group document on "Natural Resource Accounting";
The CD-ROM "Environmental Auditing at work";
The Workplan 2002-2004 of the INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing.

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.

New Chair of the Working Group

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.

Regional Working Groups

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:

Region

Coordinating SAI

Contact person and e-mail/ fax

Website

AFROSAI

South Africa

Mr. Graham Randall, grahamr@agsa.co.za

www.agsa.co.za

ARABOSAI

Egypt

Mrs. Samia Labib,
fax: ## 00202 4017086

ASOSAI

China

Mr. Liu Xiaoming, email : bydaniel@sohu.com

www.koreasai.go.kr and http://www.asosai.org/

OLACEFS and CAROSAI

Brazil

Mr. Luciano Carlos Batista,lucianocb@tcu.gov.br and Fabio H. Granje E Barros,fabiohg@tcu.gov.br

www.contraloriagen.gov.co/comisionagro/comtema and www.contraloria.gob.pe/ olacefs

SPASAI

New Zealand

Mr. Martyn Pinckard,
martyn.pinckard@oag.govt.nz

www.oag.govt.nz and www.oag.govt.nz/HomePageFolders/SPASAI/SPASAI

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.

Edited by The Netherlands Court of Audit
Corresponding address: Mr. Peter van Roozendaal
PO-box 20015
2500 EA Den Haag
The Netherlands
Telephone: #31-70-3424292
Fax: #31-70-3424406
E-mail: environmental.auditing@rekenkamer.nl

Attachment: Catalogue of the poster exposition at INCOSAI XVII

Nr.		Prepared by:
Region: AFROSAI
1	Regional Working Group on Environmental Auditing of AFROSAI	South Africa
2	The audit of fresh water resources	South Africa
3	The audit of the management of national parks and wildlife	Zimbabwe
Region: ARABOSAI
4	ARABOSAI Subcommittee for Environmental Auditing	Egypt
5	The follow-up audit of the Health Ministry and certain entities concerned with fresh water pollution fighting	Egypt
6	The performance audit of sewage purification plants operating and maintaining project	Saudi Arabia
Region: ASOSAI
7	Activities of the ASOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing	Korea and China
8	The audit of the Development and Preservation of the Groundwater	Korea
9	The audit of the Management Status of National and Natural Parks	Korea
10	The audit of the Pak Council of research in water resources: Cholistan, how it was	Pakistan
11	The audit of the Pak Council of research in water resources: Cholistan, desertification control research endeavours of PCRWR	Pakistan
12	The audit of the Pak Council of research in water resources: Cholistan, the desert smiles	Pakistan
13	The audit of drinking water supply	Indonesia
Region: EUROSAI
14	The regional Working Group EUROSAI	Poland
15	The audit of the Convention on the protection of the marine environment of the Baltic Sea- Helsinki Convention by 8 SAIs of subregion east and on tasks in the area of the air pollution prevention by 3 SAIs of subregion east	Poland
16	The international performance audit of marine pollution from ships (MARPOL, OPRC and Bonn treaties) by 8 SAIS of subregions west Europe and Mediterranean	Netherlands
17	The international performance audit of marine pollution from ships (MARPOL, OPRC and Bonn treaties) by 8 SAIS of subregions west Europe and Mediterranean - continued	Netherlands
18	The audit of the national implementation of the OSPAR convention	Norway
19	The audit on the Danube River Protection Convention by several SAIs of subregion south-east Europe	Romania
Regions: OLACEFS and CAROSAI
20	The regional Working Group of OLACEFS	Brazil
21	The audit of the management of hydraulic resources	Costa Rica
22	Administración de los recursos hídricos	Costa Rica
Region: SPASAI
23	The audit of the multilateral agreements management, accountability and reporting of four international accords	New Zealand
Region: USA/Canada
24	The audit on the federal role in addressing – and contributing to – nonpoint source pollution	USA
25	The audit of the Convention on biological diversity	Canada
Posters on the way environmental auditing is embedded in the organisation and the audit strategy:
26	Organisation of the Canadian SAI an position of the Commissioner on the Environment	Canada
27	Mandate and organisation of the SAI of Poland	Poland
28	Mandate and organisation of the SAI of Indonesia	Indonesia
29	Mandate and organisation of the SAI of South Africa	South Africa
30	Mandate and organisation of the SAI of Costa Rica	Costa Rica
31	Mandate and organisation of the SAI of Costa Rica – Spanish version	Costa Rica
32	Brazilian Court of Audit – Environmental Special Commission	Brazil
33	Brazilian Court of Audit – Strategy and guidelines in the environmental area	Brazil
General posters
34	When there is no clean water left, we'll have our tears to drown in	Pakistan
35	Our children lend us this world, lets defend it	Peru
36	The CD ROM of the INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing	Netherlands

VOUCHER

	FOR THE CD-ROM *"ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING AT WORK"* OF *THE INTOSAI WORKING GROUP* *ON ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING*
With this voucher, you can get a free copy of the CD ROM "Environmental auditing at work" in the Information Centre of the INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing in the Moderato Room of the Congress Centre. The Environmental Auditing Information Centre is open from Sunday 21 October – Wednesday 24 October during conference hours

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