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On March 19, in the Golden Tulip Hotel the work of the broadened meeting of the Working Group (WG) on the Improvement of the RA External Control System Legal Frame presided over by the Head of the Group, the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs Gagik Minasyan continued.

During the Meeting the attendees touched upon the essence of the annual report and the current conclusions on the Annual Activity of the Audit Chamber (AC), the procedural issues of their presentation and debate in the NA, as well as the suspension of the authorities of the Control Chamber (CC) and other norms of responsibility, particularly in case of the exceeding of the authorities, the problem of the protection of the entities in case of exceeding of the authorities by the CC, the auditing of the financial reports of the RA Central Bank and the relations between the CC-RA National Assembly and the CC-RA Government.

In their speeches the experts from abroad considered important the publicity of the CC activity. In this context they highlighted the relations of the CC with the concerned organizations and the mass media, as the connection with the representatives of the mass media, the NGOs and different unions raises the efficient work of the CC.

Summing up the work of the two-day meeting, Gagik Minasyan deemed it useful and efficient. He noted that ending the active debates on the issues of controversial and additional clarification, the Group succeeded to get their answers, which with right wordings will be revealed in the draft law under revision of the law on Control Chamber. Gagik Minasyan expressed conviction that at the end of the works it will be possible to submit a draft law to the National Assembly, which will correspond with the INTOSAI principles, the international admissible standards and will also be practiced.

Let us inform that in March the representatives of the Working Group will study the Estonian experience of the implementation of the international auditing in Estonia.