JURISAI is Now an Associated Entity of INTOSAI!
Author: Vincent Lecaron, project manager at the French Cour des comptes
INCOSAI 2025, the INTOSAI Congress, represented a decisive step for JURISAI members since the inaugural General Assembly held in Paris in October 2024.
The objective was to obtain an amendment to the INTOSAI statutes so that Jurisai would be recognized as an associated entity, on the same footing as regional organizations (EUROSAI, PASAI, AFROSAI, etc.).
The Governing Board and then the INTOSAI Congress approved this amendment by a majority vote. This recognition will enable JURISAI to submit an activity report annually to the INTOSAI Governing Board and every three years to INCOSAI.
On the initiative of the French Cour des comptes, which chairs JURISAI, two events were organized during INCOSAI. The first, the Extraordinary General Assembly, was held on Thursday, October 30, chaired by General Prosecutor Véronique Hamayon. The meeting was attended by more than 70 people from 28 member and observer institutions, including 13 heads of supreme audit institutions (SAIs) and four attorneys general.
During this meeting, at which the General Secretariat presented a budget for 2027, the General Assembly also approved the admission of five new full members1 and five associate and observer members2, bringing the organization’s membership to 43.
On Friday, October 31, a JURISAI side event was held on the role of jurisdictional SAIs in ensuring the accountability of public managers in the implementation of policies to respond to economic and financial crises.
In front of around 70 participants, four speakers highlighted the added value of judicial review in crisis environments characterized by urgency, complex public decision-making, and heightened accountability requirements. The discussions focused in particular on:
- the necessary complementarity, in times of crisis, between audit work and its judicial extensions;
- the importance for judicial SAIs to pay the necessary attention, in a crisis context, to the integration of risks of fraud and misuse of public funds and to the quality of financial reporting;
- the necessary caution in determining sanctions and their individualization.
The Court of Auditors of the Kingdom of Morocco also set up a permanent stand in the main hall of INCOSAI. This stand, to which the Court contributed, presented the organization and all institutional documents, as well as information documents on its members. It was the most visited stand during Incosai and enabled meetings with many people interested in JURISAI and its missions.
- Courts of Auditors of Gabon, Lebanon, and Tunisia, Administrative Court of Mozambique, and Court of Appeal of Timor-Leste ↩︎
- SAIs of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, the Central African Republic, the People’s Republic of China, Peru and of the United Arab Emirates ↩︎
