Relations with Parliament

The Audit Office’s relations with the Parliament of Catalonia are through the Parliamentary Committee for the Public Audit Office, whose sessions it attends whenever it has to present its audit reports, as determined by the Committee.

Once they have been approved by the Audit Office Board, the audit reports are sent to Parliament, which has them distributed to the different parliamentary political groups. As mandated by Parliament’s procedural rules, the reports relating to the Catalan Government’s public sector are sent to the Audit Office Parliamentary Committee, to be dealt with. With audit reports relating to local government organisations and public universities, parliamentary groups may, as they see fit, request that a report be brought before the Audit Office Committee.

Parliament’s Internal Regulations provide for a special procedure for the annual report on the General Account of the Government of Catalonia. The Public Audit Office’s chair presents this report to a plenary sitting of Parliament, whereupon the parliamentary groups have leave to address the House by turn and the Committee’s decision is put to a vote.