State Budget grants earmarked for zoological gardens
Press release on completion of the auditing operation No. 05/29
The auditing operation was included in the Annual Audit Plan of the Supreme Audit Office (hereinafter referred to as “SAO”) for the year 2005 under No. 05/29. The auditing operation was managed and the audit conclusion drawn up by Mr. Jan Holeček, Member of the SAO.
The aim of the audit was to examine whether the State Budget funds earmarked for zoological gardens as grants were provided to beneficiaries in compliance with applicable regulations and conditions and whether they were used economically and effectively. The auditing operation covered the period 2003 and 2004 at 25 audited entities.
The audit found out above all:
- The Ministry of Environment neglected to require that applications for grants should contain data on all subsidized activities total costs. It was thus impossible to assess an efficiency of the state budget funds using.
- The ministry also approved and carried grants always in the same amount that was asked by applicants in spite of many applications were justified unsatisfactorily or contained wrong or incomplete data.
- The ministry even accepted final accounts of the used grants despite these accounts contained shortcomings and did not correspond with the actual drawing according to determined conditions.
It is thus possible to state that the Ministry of Environment executed its managerial, methodological and control activity in this area unsatisfactorily.