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INTOSAI WG on Key National Indicators
Situation about National Indicators in Switzerland and the role of the Swiss Federal Audit Office
Presentation by Arthur Taugwalder,Swiss Federal Audit Office,Moscow, 20 May 2008
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Switzerland – 26 Cantons (States)EIDGENÖSSISCHE FINANZKONTROLLE
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26 cantons (=states)26 Constitutions26 legislative systems & 26 tax systems26 Cantonal Audit Institutions (CAIs)
Swiss ConfederationSwiss ConstitutionFederal legislation & federal taxesSwiss Federal Audit Office (SFAO)
Approx. 3,000 municipalities,all with their own laws & tax systems,and some with their own audit offices.
Confederation, Cantons and Municipalities
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KNI – important steps
UNO Earth Summit in Rio and Johannesburg lead to the Paragraph 73 Sustainability in the Constitution and the Swiss Monitoring System MONET
Governmental Report „Indicators as managerial size“ from 2003on request of the parliament
Legislative Plan 2007 – 2011 from 23 January 2008: first time with Indicators
Paragraph 170 of the Constitution: Performance Audit of government action
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KNI - Landscape
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MONETMonitoring sustainable
Development
Legislative Plan2007 - 2011
GrowthStrategy
of theFederal
Government
New tasks allocation
and financialequalisation
EcologicalFootprint
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MONET - Swiss Monitoring System Definition
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This system of sustainable indicators is jointly developing by:• Swiss Federal Statistical Office, • Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape• Federal Office for Spatial Development
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MONET - Swiss Monitoring System 17 key indicators to measure progress
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Legislative Planning 2007 - 2011
5 Guidlines Each guidline has several important aims And each aim has:
- a Strategy- necessary Measures of federal government policy- Audit of the reaching the aims with several Indicators
Synopsis of Indicators in Appendix 3 Dercret of the federal government from January 2008 demand
the „Reaching of the aims“ : - to be done by the mentioned Indicators and - to inform in the control-report
System of the political agenda of the federal government
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Legislative Planning 2007 - 2011
Annual governmental control-report coordinated by the Federal Chancellery
The parliament has different Supervisory Committees of both chambers, the Auditing and the Control Committees for the business of the federal government and the Federal Administration
Secretariats of the Supervisory Committees
The SFAO, the Swiss Federal Audit Office
Who audit the political agenda of the federal government?
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KNI - Role of the SFAOA) No Role in creating and direct developmentB) Audit Role and indirect development: Data based Risk analyses about - the Audites involved in the Indicators-prcesses - Process and Data-Qualities Annual Audit Programme autonomously
- Performance Audits - Cross-sectional surveys Mandat by the Federal Parliament Mandat by the Federal Government
Thank you for your attention and have a good day!
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