Minimize overlapping activities of inspection, examination and State Audit agencies.

On the afternoon of May 8, the Provincial National Assembly Delegation held a conference to collect comments on the Draft Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the State Audit Law. Deputy Heads of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation: Nguyen Thanh Hien and Tran Van Mao chaired the conference. Photo: Thanh Le

At the conference, delegates gave opinions and discussed enthusiastically focusing on issues such as: electronic audit data, expanding audit subjects; need to make audit decisions with units when there are signs of law violations or transfer to investigation agencies for criminal prosecution; supplementing regulations on coordination between the State Audit agency and inspection and examination agencies...

Deputy Director of Nghe An Tax Department Ha Anh Dung suggested that the content of the Law needs to be studied and supplemented with regulations, sanctions, and authority to impose administrative sanctions by the State Audit for violations of the law by audited units and related organizations and individuals; and to specify the level of sanctions and subjects of sanctions.

Deputy Chief Inspector of the province Pham Hong Son suggested that the Law should clearly stipulate and minimize duplication and overlap between inspection and State Audit activities. Photo: Thanh Le

Commenting on Section 6b of the supplement to Article 10, Mr. Nguyen Ho Canh (legal collaborator of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation) suggested that it is necessary to review whether the assignment of the task of performing judicial appraisal of public finance and public assets in cases to the auditing agency... is objective, because there are cases that are prosecuted based on audit results. Therefore, to carry out this task, an independent appraisal agency should be established under the Ministry of Finance.

The majority of delegates expressed their concern and suggested that the Law should consider the coordination relationship and scope of implementation based on the functions and tasks of each agency and organization; ensure to minimize duplication and overlap between inspection and examination activities and State Audit activities; and ensure consistency and synchronization between related Laws.

Mr. Vo Tien Thinh - Deputy Chief Auditor of State Audit Region II spoke to receive comments at the conference. Photo: Thanh Le

Concluding the conference, Deputy Head of the Provincial Delegation of National Assembly Deputies Tran Van Mao emphasized: Organizing a workshop to collect opinions on the draft Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the State Audit Law 2015 aims to assess the current state of the State Audit Law 2015, thereby proposing quality and focused amendments that meet practical requirements; strengthening the role and responsibility of performing the functions of the State Audit agency.

The comments at the conference will be compiled by the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, received and recommended to the National Assembly Standing Committee, and presented at the upcoming National Assembly session.

The State Audit Law 2015 was passed by the 13th National Assembly at the 9th Session, effective from January 1, 2016. After more than 3 years of implementation, the State Audit Law 2015 has revealed a number of problems and shortcomings that require research, amendment and supplementation.

On December 13, 2018, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly issued Resolution No. 613/2018/UBTVQH14, according to which the Draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2015 State Audit Law was added to the 2019 Law and Ordinance Development Program, expected to be submitted at two sessions of the 14th National Assembly (7th Session, 8th Session).