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INTOSAI Working Group on the Audit of Privatisation,
Economic Regulation and Public Private Partnerships



INTOSAI Working Group on the Audit of Privatisation

Thirteenth Meeting London, Tuesday 26 – Friday 29 September 2006

Conference and Event Agenda

Tuesday 26 September

19:00-22:30 Drinks reception, Reading Room, Thistle Royal Horseguards


Wednesday 27 September

9:00-9:30 Arrival, registration and coffee
9:30-9:45 Opening address from Sir John Bourn, C&AG, UK NAO
9:45-10:00 Introduction to interactive voting
10:00-10:40 Mathilde Mesnard, OECD – Protecting State Interests in Privatised Businesses; OECD guidelines on the governance of state owned enterprises
10:40-11:05 Obeid Shreim, Central Organisation for Control and Auditing, The Republic of Yemen – Feedback on World Bank experience of privatisation
11:05-11:30 Elzbieta Sikorska, Supreme Chamber of Control, Poland – Two audits of the Polish spirit industry privatisation
11:30-12:00 Coffee
12:00-12:45  Hana Hyksova, Supreme Audit Office, Czech Republic – Management of state assets by Railway Infrastructure Administration
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Bob Holbert, Australian National Audit Office - Auditing regulatory frameworks for economic assets post-privatisation
14:45-15:15 Group photo
15:15-15:45 Coffee
15:45-17:00 Peter Morgan, UK National Audit Office – Accounting for Service Concessions – the UK Private Finance Initiative
17:00 Close


Thursday 28 September

9:00-9:30 Coffee
9:30-10:15 Luciano Dos Santos Danni, Tribunal de Contas Uniao, Brazil – From concessions to PPP: what’s new in TCU´s oversight strategy
10:15-11:00 Ed Farquharson, Partnerships UK – Development of the UK PPP Market
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:30 Working Group update, covering Technical Case Studies, website, dictionary of privatisation terms
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:15 Briefing on Breakout Groups
14:15-15:15 Breakout Groups on PPPs, Regulation, Privatisation
15:15-15:45 Coffee
15:45-16:45 Feedback and future priorities (incl. venues for future meetings)
16:45 Close
19:00-22:00 Closing Dinner, St. Stephen’s Club


Friday 29 September

08:30-15:30 Cultural Excursion (Hampton Court Palace)