Customs Union auditing agencies examining distribution of import duties

Experts from the three countries are now busy auditing in Belarus. They will stay in Minsk till 11 September. After that similar audits will be carried out in Moscow and Astana for one month.
The audits are part of the joint measures carried out by the Council of chiefs of supreme financial control agencies of the CIS states. These measures are part of the plan for the Council’s work in 2012-2013.
Performance of the CIS agency in the last 12 months, the expert group on key national indicators, and the group on working out state financial auditing standards was discussed at the session of the Council of chiefs of supreme financial control agencies of the CIS states in Astana on 5-6 September. Chairman of the State Control Committee of Belarus Alexander Yakobson delivered a report at the session.
The session tabled the role and place of supreme financial control agencies in auditing the usage of the funds allocated to support agricultural manufacturers. Alexander Yakobson told colleagues about procedures used to control the performance of the agribusiness industry in Belarus, the observance of state interests in this sphere, and the effectiveness of using state support. The Chairman of the State Control Committee of Belarus remarked that various controlling functions, including audits, advance control, and monitoring, are used in this line of work. Their results are processed to work out proposals to improve the legislation and make violators answerable. Such measures often allow preventing the unjustified spending of state support funds, noted Alexander Yakobson. He mentioned several audits performed recently, namely an audit of the procedure used to plan expenses involved in ameliorative operations, control over the fulfillment of state support conditions, storage and processing of harvest.
At the same time the Chairman of the State Control Committee of Belarus noted that major changes have been carried out in Belarusian agribusiness in the last few years with state support. A powerful physical infrastructure and a comfortable social environment have been created for the effective operation of agribusiness. In addition to ensuring the national food security the measures have allowed considerably increasing agricultural export.
The 13th session of the Council of chiefs of supreme financial control agencies of the CIS states gathered heads of auditing agencies of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and Tajikistan.
The Council of chiefs of supreme financial control agencies of the CIS states was set up in November 2008 with a view to enabling interaction between supreme auditing agencies for the sake of improving state financial auditing, assistance to carrying out joint and parallel auditing measures, advanced training of personnel, for the sake of sharing experience in methods used to exercise state financial control.