On the 16th
of December 2009 representatives of SIGMA, supreme advisor Joop
Vroliyk and expert Jeremy Cant came to the MainCRO on a three-day visit to evaluate the MainCRO’s activity spheres, reforming of which needs to be
supported by international experts and to discuss necessary measures for its
realization.
In the
MainCRO the EU experts were greeted by Deputies
Chairman of the MainCRO Gennadiy
Dmytrenko and Ihor Stefaniuk, Head of the Department of Organizational Operations
Serhiy Chornutskiy, Chiefs
of the divisions of the Department of Public Internal Financial Control Harmonization
Tetyana Borovkova and Volodymyr Leschenko as well as specialists
of the division of providing of collegiums work, international relations and
coordination of work with executive authorities of the Department of
Organizational Operations.
Each
parties of the meeting expressed theirs wishes in relation to and visions of cooperation
between the MainCRO and SIGMA in 2010. As a result of
bilateral efforts the following ways of assistance that SIGMA will provide the MainCRO with, were determined:
-developing of normative base in the sphere of
public internal financial control;
-training of specialists in the PIFC sphere;
-assistance for the Central Harmonization Unit
(the Department of PIFC Harmonization of the MainCRO);
-preparing of a Twinning
fiche for a new Twinning project.
The meeting
on the 17th of December 2009 was dedicated to developing the draft
program of cooperation between the MainCRO and SIGMA for
implementation of every mentioned directions on 2010. This
draft envisages a number of measures, in particular reviewing of draft
enactments, seminars, presentations, trainings, pilot projects, study tours etc.,
as well as terms of their execution.
On the
18th of December Head of the Department of Public Internal Financial
Control Harmonization Maryna Barynina
and Deputy Director of the Department of Budget System Reform of the Ministry
of Finance Ihor Bugrak aligned
with representatives of the meeting and also took part in discussion of the
draft program of cooperation on 2010.
In
particular Ukrainian party noted the necessity of close cooperation of
international experts presenting different governments of the EU countries and
providing Ukraine
with assistance in reforming of PIFC system, with the purpose to avoid any discrepancies.
Representatives of SIGMA agreed on this suggestion and proposed to envisage in
2010 joint seminars with representatives from France
and Kingdom of Netherlands
cooperating with the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine in reforming of budget
system.
Ihor Bugrak also expressed a wish to involve
representatives of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Ministry of
Finance of Ukraine
in trainings on internal audit. He referred these wants to the necessity of a clear-cut
understanding of PIFC system and needs of such reform by the Ukrainian experts
working on PIFC implementing on governmental level.
Joop Vrolijk pointed out that training of
Ukrainian colleagues will have twofold approach. There is "round
table" in Ukraine and study tour
abroad. Hereat he noted that while defining the Member
State of EU the term of its membership should be considered because, for
example, such country as England
has its own long-term history and its experience will hardly suit Ukraine
today.
Participants
of the meeting also concentrated on issue of drafting a Twinning fiche for a
new Twinning project. After outlining of cooperation ways and discussion of an
experience of some Member States of EU in the fight against fraud sphere,
participants of the meeting decided to start their work on this issue on the
beginning of 2010.
Hereby
parties came to an agreement on ways of future cooperation and agreed that the
draft program on 2010 should be considered by the European Commission and the MainCRO and should be approved on the beginning of January
next year.
