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Committee on Audit

Activities

The remit of the Committee on Audit shall be:

1) to consider reports and opinions submitted by the National Audit Office of Lithuania to the Seimas and to exercise parliamentary scrutiny of the implementation of public audit recommendations contained in the public audit reports;

valid as of 1 January 2023:

1) to consider reports and opinions of public audit conducted by the National Audit Office of Lithuania and submitted to the Seimas and/or the Seimas Committees, and to exercise parliamentary scrutiny of the implementation of public audit recommendations contained in the public audit reports;

2) to prepare and consider draft resolutions of the Seimas concerning the implementation of public audit recommendations contained in the public audit reports;

3) to coordinate activities of the Seimas Committees and Commissions when considering reports and opinions submitted by the National Audit Office of Lithuania, presenting conclusions regarding them and exercising parliamentary scrutiny of the implementation of public audit recommendations contained in the public audit reports;

4) to exercise parliamentary scrutiny of the efficiency of the implementation of the functions of the National Audit Office of Lithuania, the state enterprise Turto bankas and the Public Procurement Office, to present proposals and recommendations relating to the improvement of their activities, and to participate in the preparation of draft laws pertaining thereto;

5) to consider an auditor’s opinion and a financial statement audit report, an annual report, results of an external assessment of activities of the National Audit Office of Lithuania submitted by the Auditor General to the Seimas together with a set of financial statements, to present conclusions and proposals regarding provisions of a draft state budget relating to conformity to the needs of the National Audit Office of Lithuania of state budget appropriations proposed to the National Audit Office of Lithuania;

6) to consider and present conclusions on a national set of financial statements, a set of consolidated statements of the State, a set of consolidated statements of the State Social Insurance Fund Board, a set of consolidated statements of the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund and other state resource funds the estimates of which are approved by the Seimas, sets of annual reports as well as public audit opinions and public audit reports thereon submitted by the National Audit Office of Lithuania;

valid as of 1 January 2023:

6) to consider and submit conclusions on a national set of annual statements, a state set of annual statements, a set of annual statements of the state social funds, a set of annual statements of the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund and a set of annual statements of the Pension Annuity Fund, as well as opinions the National Audit Office of Lithuania regarding these sets;

7) to consider, together with other Seimas committees, whether the managers of appropriations use state budget appropriations and the State property rationally and efficiently;

8) to debate and put forward proposals on the implementation of the State investment programme;

9) to debate draft laws referred to the Committee, to prepare conclusions thereon and to examine issues of accounting, reporting, external and internal audits, management, use and disposal of state property;

10) to prepare and debate drafts of resolutions of the Seimas on the assignment to the National Audit Office of Lithuania to perform public audit not foreseen in the annual activity plan of the National Audit Office of Lithuania;

11) to provide the National Audit Office of Lithuania with aggregate information of all committees and commissions about the most risky areas of the public sector in which it is expedient to initiate public audit;

12) to consider an annual report of the European Court of Auditors, to present conclusions thereon to the Seimas and the Seimas Committee on European Affairs;

13) to evaluate the opinion of the National Audit Office of Lithuania on the structural adjustment target set out by the Draft Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Approval of Financial Indicators of the State Budget and Municipal Budgets for a Given Year and on the need for additional measures (in monetary terms) to implement this target, and to submit its opinion and proposals to the Committee on the Budget and Finance (and upon the recommendation of the Seimas – to the Seimas itself).

 

Article 591 of the Statue of the Seimas