The Annual Report of the Court of Auditors for 2023 was submitted today to the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Konstantinos Tassoulas, by the President of the Supreme Fiscal Court, Sotiria Dounis.

According to a relevant announcement by the Parliament, “the Court of Auditors carried out a rich work in 2023, completing 190 years of operation, issuing 12,681 decisions, acts and minutes concerning 87,976 requests for judicial protection”. As mentioned by Ms. Dounis, “this report marks the beginning of a new era, because not only is it prepared under the new organic law of the Court of Auditors, but its timely publication is now achieved, so that its findings are up-to-date in time its publication in the Government Gazette”.

For the purpose of this Report, the President of the Court of Auditors explained that it is twofold. “First of all, it aims to inform the citizens about the activity of the Court and the House’s accountability to the citizens. Secondly, it aspires to perform an educational and deterrent role by highlighting faults found in public management”. At the same time, it is a means of dialogue with the country’s legal community, as it summarizes the most important findings in the evolution of the Court’s jurisprudence.

The Court of Auditors exercised jurisdictional, auditing and advisory powers, among others, to speed up the adjudication of pension cases through a newly introduced procedure, to account and balance of Local Government Organizations and the other NPDD, to ensure the rule of law in the awarding of public contracts, on fiscal sustainability in relation to the course of macroeconomics of sizes, public debt, risks with an emphasis on Banks, etc.

A part of the Report refers to the opinions of the Court, where those concerning the granting of a special pension to the victims of the recent train accident in Tempi and to the families of the deceased, to the employment incentives of the old age and disability pensioners of the e-EFKA are developed there and increasing the debt ceiling that can be settled.

The President of the Parliament, Konstantinos Tasoulas, thanked for the information and wished that the work of the Supreme Court would be as creative and thorough in the coming year for the benefit of the fiscal operation of the state and its citizens.