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



INTOSAI Working Group for the audit of Privatisation, Economic Regulation and Public Private Partnerships

Tuesday 17 – Thursday 19 March 2009

Conference and Event Agenda

Sunday 15 and Monday 16 March

Arrival of delegations in Moscow


Tuesday 17 March

09:00-09:30 Arrival at Chamber of Accounts, registration and coffee
09:30-10:00 Opening address from Dr. Sergey Vadimovich Stephashin (Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation) and Mr. Ed Humpherson (Chair of the meeting, Assistant Auditor General, UK NAO)
10:00-10:15 Introduction to interactive voting
Presentations on Privatisation Issues
10:15-10.30 Presentation of the Federal Agency of the State Property of the Russian Federation
10.30-11.00 Auditing the Privatisation Process in the Russian Federation (Alexander Piskunov, Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation)
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00 Audit work in response to the banking crisis (Ms. Patricia Leahy, UK National Audit Office)
12:00-12. 45 Government sales of share in TeliaSonera (Goran Hytlander and Dimitrios Ioannidis, Swedish National Audit Office)
12.45-13.00 Group Photo
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Audits of privatisation of the pharmaceutical industry (Mrs. Elzbieta Sikorska, Supreme Chamber of Control, Poland)
14.45-15.30 Privatisation Experience in Zambia (Ms. Evelyn Mutamdwa, Office of the Auditor General of Zambia)
Presentations on Economic Regulation
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-16.45 Experience of regulatory structures (Mr. Abdul Rahman Ahmed Hamed Al Harthi, State Audit Institution of Oman)
16:45-17.30 Modernisation Project for External Control of Regulation and Experiences of audit of regulation in electricity sector (Mr Marcelo Barros Gomes, Brazilian Court of Audit)
17.30-17:45 Closing remarks for day one
17:45 Close


Wednesday 18 March

9:00- 9.40 Audit of the Regulation of the Postal Service (Mr. Wilfred Aquilina, National Audit Office of Malta
09.40-10.20 The Australian Government’s response to the global financial crisis: Fiscal stimulus and Financial Stability Measures (Ms. Alicia Hall, Australian National Audit Office)
Presentation on PPPs
10:20-11:00 Testing the UK NAO’s matrix approach for PPPs of student’s hostel construction in Hungary (Gusztav Bager, Hungary State Audit Office)
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11:30-13:00 UK Secretariat Progress Update
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Breakout sessions on Privatisation, Economic Regulation and PPPs including coffee break
15:00-15:30 Feedback to wider plenary session from breakout
15:30-16:15 Future work priorities
16:15-16:30 Closing remarks
16:30 Close and Departure to Hotels
19:00-21:00 Formal dinner hosted by Dr Sergey Vadimovich Stephashin, Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation at “Fitil” restaurant


Thursday 19 March

09:00 Departure from hotels to the Kremlin
10.00-15.00 Cultural excursion to the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square
15.00 Departure to the hotels/airport

Friday 20 March

Departure of delegations from Moscow