The OAG’s audit report on the Central Government Financial Statements for 2006 – Document no. 1 (2007-2008) – was submitted to the Storting on 16 October 2007. The document contains the OAG’s comments on the ministries’ management and implementation of their budgets and the cabinet ministers’ management of state ownership interests in companies. Material weaknesses have been found in the accounts of nineteen agencies. This is less than in the previous year.
Violations of the public procurement regulations, poor ICT security and weaknesses in the management of a number of grant programmes. These are some of the main comments resulting from the review conducted by the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) of the Norwegian ministries’ management and implementation of the budget for 2006.
“We have been pointing out these conditions for a number of years without seeing any appreciable improvement, and this is cause for concern,” says the Auditor General, Jørgen Kosmo.