INTOSAI Working Group on the Audit of Privatisation

Papers for the Eighth Meeting
Budapest, 11 and 12 June 2001


Agenda

 

Monday, 11 June 2001

0900

Introductory remarks by Sir John Bourn, Chairman of the Working Group and Dr Arpád Kovács, President of the SAI of Hungary. Adoption of Agenda

0945

Further consideration of draft guidelines on audit of economic regulation and of public/private finance and concessions

1015

Hungarian privatisation

 

-

Experience and audit (Dr Kovács)

 

-

Reorganisation (Mr Akos Macher)

1115

Coffee/tea

1130

Visit to Parliament: delegates and accompanying persons

(At 1200 the State President will receive heads of delegations)

1330

Lunch at Gerbaud Restaurant

1500

The state: a partner in private business

 

-

Role of the state as minority shareholder (Survey Report)

 

-

Commercialisation projects (UK)

1600

Using the privatisation audit guidelines

 

-

Privatisation of harbours: midway report (Denmark)

 

-

Challenges posed by privatisation: update (Albania)

1645

Auditing in an outsourced environment (Australia)

1730

Conclusion of Day 1

 

 

 

Tuesday, 12 June 2001

0900

Using the public/private finance and concessions guidelines

 

-

Enriching audit methodologies (Poland)

 

-

Auditing concession contracts (Hungary)

0945

Privatising regulation (Israel)

1030

Information Exchange

 

-

Digest of completed privatisation audits (India)

 

-

Using the Working Group’s website

1100

Coffee/tea

1130

Report to XVII INCOSAI (guidelines and future work programme)

1200

Future meetings and any other business

1215

Concluding remarks