To give a very brief overview, this delegation is here as part of a project that is funded by the UN Democracy Fund, and it's intended to strengthen accountability in Serbia. One of those areas is to strengthen the work of committees, particularly their role in the budget process.
It's a pleasure to be here to meet with the public accounts committee. In Serbia, they do not have one. They may be creating one. They do have a finance committee that actually undertook a very important endeavour a few years ago, and that was to draft a law on the State Audit Institution, or the Auditor General's office, in Serbia. They've never had one before and this was a significant action because very few laws are introduced by Parliament. Most of them, as they are here, are introduced by government, so this is one of the first laws ever drafted by Parliament.
The law has been enacted. They are currently in the process of creating the building blocks for the creation of the State Audit Institution. We're here to look at how these organizations function with one another, how they relate to Parliament, what Parliament's role is in overseeing the government, and what the mechanisms are for that to be done. One of them is through public consultations. One of them is with interaction with the Auditor General's office.
It's a pleasure to be here.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.