At its 26th meeting held today, the Security and Defence Committee, with representatives of the State Audit Institution and the Ministry of Interior in attendance, has been informed in detail about the findings of the subject Report, which addressed the issue of control over the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Final Report on the Audit of the Annual Financial Statement and Regularity of Operations of the Ministry of Interior of Montenegro for 2014, aimed at determining the adequacy, effectiveness and timeliness of the actions undertaken by the management of the audited entity in order to eliminate the identified shortcomings.

In the context of reviewing the implementation of the issued recommendations, the Committee, among other things, called for cooperation and coordination of the activities of the Ministry of Interior with the Ministry of Finance and the Real-Estate Administration, in order to achieve full compliance of operations of the audited entity with the current regulations, while in order to establish an efficient system of internal financial control in particular, the Committee deemed as particularly significant the ensuring of the consistent implementation of the Law on Public Procurement and the Law on Public Internal Financial Control System.

Based on the held debate, the Committee unanimously accepted the Final Report of the State Audit Institution on the control audit of the Ministry of Interior.