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Patil, Shankar Bhairu. "Role of Public Accounts Committee in Maharashtra." Indian Journal of Public Administration 34, no. 1 (January 1988): 92–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019556119880108.

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Pandey, D. N. "Public Accounts Committee : Its Evolution and Significance." Indian Journal of Public Administration 34, no. 2 (April 1988): 375–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019556119880213.

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Higgins, Martin, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Philip Conaglen, Colwyn Jones, and Margaret Douglas. "UK Public Accounts Committee report on health inequalities." Lancet 377, no. 9761 (January 2011): 206–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(11)60044-5.

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Caan, Woody. "UK Public Accounts Committee report on health inequalities." Lancet 377, no. 9761 (January 2011): 207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(11)60045-7.

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Learner, Sue. "The Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report published." Nursing and Residential Care 18, no. 9 (September 2, 2016): 460. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/nrec.2016.18.9.460.

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Chaplin, Steve. "Tamiflu, clinical trials and the Public Accounts Committee." Prescriber 25, no. 11 (June 5, 2014): 28–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/psb.1214.

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Mehta, S. M. "Impact of Public Accounts Committee on Executive: A Study." Indian Journal of Public Administration 35, no. 1 (January 1989): 27–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019556119890103.

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Landers, Brian. "Encounters with the Public Accounts Committee: A Personal Memoir." Public Administration 77, no. 1 (January 1999): 195–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9299.00150.

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Foster, Helen. "The effectiveness of the Public Accounts Committee in Northern Ireland." Public Money & Management 35, no. 6 (August 26, 2015): 401–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2015.1083684.

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Guðbjartsson, Einar, and Jón Snorri Snorrason. "Umhverfi og starfsemi endurskoðunarnefnda – bakgrunnur nefndarmanna og traust á fjárhagsupplýsingum." Tímarit um viðskipti og efnahagsmál 14, no. 1 (June 30, 2017): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.24122/tve.a.2017.14.1.2.

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The aim of this paper is to report partial results of a study on the environment and practices of audit committees in Iceland. The findings of two surveys, one from 2012 and the other from 2016, are compared. The paper identifies, among other things, education of committee members, reliance on financial informatin and the emphasis of audit committees. In the Annual Accounts Act, no. 3/2006, it is required for certain legal entities, public interest entities, according to the Act of Auditors, no. 79/2008, to establish an Audit Committee. The purpose of the audit committee is to ensure the high quality and high reliability of financial reporting and financial information. It does not matter whether the reports are for the administrators of the entity or the stakeholders outside the entity. The Annual Accounts Act, no. 3/2006, provides that the board constitute an audit committee. The aim of this paper is to disclosure partition of gender, education of members and changes in trust regarding financial reports according to audit committee’s members. The surveys were done among the leading companies and institutions of Iceland (which fall within the definition of “public interest entities”). The overall view is how audit committee´s issues are handled. This is the first study of its kind, which specifically look at committees in Iceland.
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Laver, John Poynton, and n/a. "The Public Accounts Committee: pursuing probity and effeciency in the Australian Public Service: the origins, work, nature and purpose of the Commonwealth's Public Accounts Committee." University of Canberra. Management, 1997. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050621.150413.

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The Commonwealth parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was established in 1913 and to the end of 1995 had produced 397 reports on government expenditure and administration, with almost all its recommendations implemented by government. However despite the Committee's prominence among the instruments parliament has used to oversight the executive, not only does it lack clear legislative authority for major areas of its activities but its specific purpose is not defined in its legislation. Among other things the latter omission renders proper evaluation of the PAC's effectiveness impossible, as objectives are a necessary prerequisite to assessment. This thesis establishes the de facto purpose of the Committee by tracing the development of standing public accounts committees generally, and by analysing the PAC's work as shown by its output of tabled reports. In that development, six evolutionary phases are identified: the PAC's roots in the move to a parliamentary control of the administration of government expenditure in Britain from the 1780s; its genesis in the 1850s with the concept of the standing public accounts committee, to be concerned with regularity and probity in government expenditure; its origins in the establishment of the British standing public accounts committee , in 1861, stressing high standards of government accounting, audit and reporting; its establishment in the Commonwealth, concentrating on information on departmental activities, efficient implementation of government programs and provision of policy advice; its re-establishment in 1951, stressing parliamentary control of government financial administration; and its operations from 1980, pressing for economic fundamentalist change in the public sector. Their output shows that in these phases the committees concerned displayed characteristic standing public accounts committee activism and independence in utilising the wording of their enabling documentation to adapt themselves to changes in their environment by pursuing a corresponding different mix of one or more of the following concurrent immediate aims: ensuring adequate systems of government accounting, audit and reporting; ensuring probity and regularity in departmental expenditure; obtaining and disseminating information on departmental activities; ensuring high standards of departmental administration and management; providing policy advice to executive government; and ensuring economic, efficient and effective government spending. Together these attributes and practices have made the PAC a parliamentary instrument of unequalled flexibility with a single continuing underlying aim - a purpose not concerning the public accounts per se, but directed at achieving high standards of management and administration in government by calling the Commonwealth's public service to account for its expenditure and activities.
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Botes, Cobus. "Adopting the Public Accounts Committee Model for financial oversight in South African municipalities - a case study of the Public Accounts Committee in the City of Cape Town." Thesis, University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6799.

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Since its inception in 1861 when the first public accounts committee was established in the United Kingdom, this oversight mechanism has developed into a model for non-executive financial oversight and accountability at the national and provincial levels of government throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. A few municipalities in South Africa have also established public accounts committees, but they are a few isolated cases. The hesitance on the part of South African municipalities to establish a good governance mechanism with a proven track record is a cause of concern, especially in view of the poor financial management that prevails throughout the local sphere of government. In this case study of the public accounts committee established in the City of Cape Town in 2006, the researcher explores the feasibility of the implementation of the public accounts committee model within the local government sphere in South Africa. Twenty internationally recognised public accounts committee practices were identified and used to probe the selected case to gain in-depth knowledge of the extent to which the committee adheres to these recognised practices. Where the committee deviated from accepted practices, the reasons for the deviation and its impact on the effectiveness of the committee were analysed. Finally, the key lessons learnt from the experience of the public accounts committee in the City of Cape Town are used in order to make two sets of recommendations: Firstly, recommendations on how the public accounts committee of the City of Cape Town can become more effective than it currently is – recommendations which are also relevant to any municipality wishing to establish a public accounts committee. The second set of recommendations is addressed to the national authorities in charge of finance and local government, as the challenge of establishing improved governance systems in local government is of national importance, and it is within the power of these authorities to remove a few key obstacles in the way of establishing municipal public accounts committees.
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Nomonde, Xego. "The role of municipal public accounts committee in the financial management of Intsika Yethu local municipality." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1007958.

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In an attempt to address the challenges of audit queries in a sustainable way and improve service delivery. Municipality should deal with causes of disclaimer and adverse opinion which are reflected on their audit report. This study focuses on the role of the Municipal Public Accounts Committee in the financial management of the Intsika Yethu Local Municipality. Challenges facing the Municipal Public Accounts Committee include lack of capacity, lack of co-operation from municipal departments and lack of knowledge and skill in municipal management. This study investigated the role of the Municipal Public Accounts Committee in the financial management of the Intsika Yethu Local Municipality. Particular attention was paid to the various roles played by the Municipal Public Accounts Committee making a contribution towards improving municipal financial management.
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Matebese-Notshulwana, Koliswa M. "A Critical Analysis of the Oversight Role and Function of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) in Promoting Accountability in South Africa’s Public Sector." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76749.

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The thesis, A Critical Analysis of the Oversight Role and Function of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) in Promoting Accountability in South Africa’s Public Sector, looks at the underlying problem of financial mismanagement in the public sector in relation to public accountability in South Africa. This problem has manifested in growing wasteful, irregular and fruitless expenditure in a post-apartheid era confronted by a multitude of social-economic challenges. Post-1994, South Africa embarked on a series of policy and legislative reforms to cater for public service regulation. These include the 1999 Public Finance Management Act and the 2003 Municipal Finance Management Act. South Africa is struggling with measures to counter corruption and the abuse of power. Given that South Africa has instituted and inaugurated a number of critical institutional mechanisms for legislative oversight, the study seeks to explore the reasons for the rampant problems of non-compliance, unaccountability and lack of answerability within South Africa’s public sector since these have serious implications for the future of the country and its ability to address inequalities relating to the history of exclusion of the majority black people, especially Africans. In light of this growing problem of irregular and wasteful expenditure, the study seeks to locate the role and function of SCOPA as a key parliamentary tool for advancing accountability. The primary research question of the study is: Why is there a growing problem of financial misconduct and abuse of public funds in the public sector, despite the existence of SCOPA as a parliamentary oversight mechanism? After considering various theories, the study employs Institutionalism as preferred theory of choice because of its explanatory strength regarding oversight issues. The strands of institutional theory used in this study is the blending of neo-institutionalism and historical institutional. Methodologically, this six-chapter thesis, employs a qualitative research approach based on semi-structured interviews and desk-top methods of data collection. The findings reveal the significance of the role and function of SCOPA in maintaining effective financial management to promote accountability. However, the conclusion of this study is that, notwithstanding the good intentions underlying the oversight role of SCOPA, democratic South Africa's financial management continues to be afflicted by corruption, fraud and theft. Failure to take action against cases of fraud and corruption brings into question the effectiveness and efficiency of the oversight role of parliament, which includes good governance and democratic accountability in the public sector and affect socio-economic development and prosperity. The study recommends remedies to bring financial management in the public sector in line with the principles of good governance and promotion of accountability. More importantly, the study recommends that the legislature in South Africa is empowered to exercise its oversight role on the executive on that SCOPA should not be politically interfered with. In this regard, it is hoped that the study provides insight and make an important contribution in strengthening oversight and reducing wasteful, irregular and fruitless expenditure so that national resources are used prudently to address the challenges facing South Africa.
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Kunene, Nomfanelo Ntombifuthi Nolwazi. "Grand corruption in Swaziland : a critical analysis of the state's response." University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5398.

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Obiyo, Robert Egwim. "Legislative Committees and Deliberative Democracy: the Committee System of the South African Parliament with Specific Reference to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA)." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/2197.

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Student Number : 9908223M - PhD thesis - School of Social Sciences - Faculty of Humanities
This thesis examines the status and role of parliamentary committees in democratic theory with a view to critically assessing the performance of one such committee, the South African version of the PAC, SCOPA. It advances a pluralist theory of popular sovereignty according to which there is no single institutional complex or site, which exclusively expresses the will of the people. The latter is the case in monist theories, which reduce democracy to its practice in a single site. Rousseau and Weber are critically examined in this connection. In the pluralist notion advanced in this thesis the popular will is expressed and realized in a plurality of institutional sites and modalities of exercise. On this perspective parliamentary committees perform a function vital to the constitution of popular sovereignty itself. They are indispensable to the formation by the people of an accurate perception by it of what the Executive is doing in its name. Their investigative work is thus constitutive of the formation of a democratic subject and will. Parliamentary committees are thus central to the satisfaction of the conditions of the deliberative dimension of democracy. On this definition, parliamentary committees must in addition themselves conform to the principles of deliberation in their own practice. This specifically deliberative conception of democracy is then further delineated by distinguishing it from the aggregation – majoritarian perspective and defending it against a variety of criticisms, including that of Chantal Mouffe. With this conceptual and normative framework in place, the British and American committee systems are examined in order to establish some reference points in terms of the institutional practice of parliamentary committees. The focus then shifts to the parliamentary committees of the South African Parliament. The constitutional and legal foundation for parliamentary committees (in the South African system) is examined with particular reference to SCOPA itself and the first five years of the new parliamentary committee system identified as a period during which several South African parliamentary committees, including SCOPA, effectively exercised their “oversight” function. Once the Government’s SDP entered the scene all things changed. This thesis examines the formation of the JIT, paying particular attention to the exclusion of the HSIU and the interventions of the Speaker, Hon Frene Ginwala. It identifies in close detail all the flaws in the SDP procurement process as well as the contradictions and lacunae in the final JIT Report itself. These are of such a magnitude as to render unreasonable any claim to the contrary and in endorsing the Report SCOPA thus clearly failed in its essential function. The notion of a threshold concept of reasonable adequacy is introduced as limiting the conditions under which committee decisions can legitimately be taken via majority voting. The argument is advanced that these were clearly not met in the case of the SCOPA decision under discussion. The implications of this “collapse” of SCOPA for South African democracy more broadly are then identified and discussed in terms of deliberative democratic theory.
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Motsilili, Chris. "Enhancing financial oversight of the Public Accounts Commitee in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24008.

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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 25% fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management (in the field of Public and Development Management) March 2017
In recent years, increased attention being given to accountability on public finances in South African municipalities saw an increase in the number of municipalities establishing Municipal Public Accounts Committees (MPACs) to address deficiencies and gaps in the local government accountability mechanisms and oversight. The purpose of the study was to establish the alignment between the recently established MPACs and the generally accepted public accounts committees with respect to the institutional design, practices and performance assessment. A qualitative case study of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality (NMBM) MPAC was followed where documents were analysed and semi-structured in-depth interviews with purposively selected participants were conducted. This research study revealed some gaps in the alignment of the NMBM MPAC to the generally accepted public accounts committees. The most crucial gap that emerged pertained to the mandate and powers of the NMBM MPAC. Recommendations for enhancing the financial oversight of the NMBM MPAC were made. The study also suggests further research on a larger number of municipalities.
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Books on the topic "Public Accounts Committee"

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Liddell, P. H. The Public Accounts Committee. London: Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, 1991.

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Secretariat, Pakistan National Assembly, ed. The Federal Public Accounts Committee in Pakistan. Karachi: Manager of Publications, 1985.

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India. Parliament. Lok Sabha. Secretariat., ed. Financial committees, 2007-2008: A review, Public Accounts Committee, Estimates Committee, and Committee on Public Undertakings. New Delhi: Lok Sabha Secretariat, 2008.

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Australia. Parliament. Joint Committee of Public Accounts. Public Accounts Committee and sittings of the Senate. Canberra: Australian Govt. Pub. Service, 1988.

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Pakistan. Public Accounts Committee. Report of the Public Accounts Committee on Railway Division. [Islamabad: s.n., 1987.

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Finance, Zambia Ministry of. Treasury minute on the report of the Public Accounts Committee. Lusaka: Govt. Printer, 1995.

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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts. Fourth report [from the] Committee of Public Accounts: Locate in Scotland. London: H.M.S.O., 1990.

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Shastri, Sandeep. Dynamics of legislative control over administration: The role of the Public Accounts Committee. New Delhi: Uppal Pub. House, 1994.

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Government, Botswana Ministry of Local. Report of the Local Authorities Public Accounts Committee: Third meeting, 1996/97-2002/03 : final accounts. Gaborone]: Ministry of Local Government, 2008.

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Committee, Mauritius National Assembly Public Accounts. Report of the Public Accounts Committee for the 1991-92 session: Rodrigues. [Mauritius]: The Assembly, 1992.

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Book chapters on the topic "Public Accounts Committee"

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Dunne, Julie, Ayesha O’Reilly, Ashley O’Donoghue, and Mary Kinahan. "A Review of Irish National Strategy for Gender Equality in Higher Education 2010–2021." In Women in STEM in Higher Education, 21–49. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1552-9_2.

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AbstractThis chapter provides a narrative of the key policies, initiatives and actions that have transformed both the landscape of gender equality in Higher Education in Ireland, and the role of gender equality in research policy and public engagement in STEM over the last decade. It aims to provide leaders committed to gender equality with examples of good practice within the EU-Irish context. The first part of the chapter focuses on the EU gender equality strategies for Higher Education. It explains the review of gender equality undertaken by the Irish Higher Education Authority (HEA), the significant findings, and the National Gender Action Plan designed to address the issues identified. It contains examples of high-level initiatives implemented to deliver on key actions. These include centres of excellence for Gender Equality, and affirmative actions taken to address imbalance at senior levels in the Irish Higher Education system. It also provides an account of Irish participation in the UK Advance Higher Education (Advance HE) gender supports including the women’s leadership programme ‘Aurora’, and the ‘Athena SWAN’ charter that provides an accreditation framework for auditing, supporting and transforming gender equality in Higher Education Institutions. For context, some examples of implementing these in an Irish Institution are provided. The chapter then reviews the gender equality strategies and policies of the main research funding organisations in Ireland, namely Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), and the Irish Research Council (IRC). It indicates how gender equality manifests in achieving gender balance in the Irish research community; and in funding applications and consequently in research design to embed the gender element. It also provides an overview of recent national studies carried out to analyse the Irish public’s perceptions and awareness of STEM in society, and factors leading to career and study choices by young Irish people. It signposts to the recent actions to address gender equality provided under SFI’s remit for public engagement in STEM.
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O’Dea MP, Jonathan. "Making a Public Accounts Committee effective." In Making Governments Accountable, 158–69. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315768618-9.

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Chatterjee, Bikram, Alistair Brown, and Victoria Wise. "Responses to the Public Accounts Committee of India." In Making Governments Accountable, 229–47. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315768618-13.

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Bringselius, Louise. "In the absence of a Public Accounts Committee." In Making Governments Accountable, 122–38. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315768618-7.

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Nyamori, Robert Ochoki, and Bosire Nyamori. "Evolution and effectiveness of the Kenyan Public Accounts Committee." In Making Governments Accountable, 275–92. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315768618-16.

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Staddon, Anthony. "The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons." In Making Governments Accountable, 103–21. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315768618-6.

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Tochtermann, Peter. "Auditing of accounts." In Unified Patent Protection in Europe: A Commentary. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198755463.003.0180.

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Pursuant to Art 70 Draft Financial Regulations, two independent and impartial auditors will be appointed (Art 75(1) Draft Financial Regulations). The working group had been of the opinion that one auditor could be sufficient to fulfil the function effectively during the start-up period but eventually decided that two auditors should be appointed for reasons of transparency and proper control. The Budget Committee may appoint a third auditor if it is deemed necessary (Art 70(1) Draft Financial Regulations). The auditors are appointed by the Budget Committee with the CMSs able to propose candidates who will be included in a list from which the auditors will be recruited (Art 70(1) Draft Financial Regulations). The auditors may not have been staff members of the Court in the three years prior to their appointment (Art 70(2) Draft Financial Regulations), must be experienced in auditing, and should preferably have served as auditors in the public administration of a CMS. They should also be fluent in at least one working language of the UPC and able to work in a second language. All three working languages of the UPC have to be represented (Art 70(2) and (3) Draft Financial Regulations). The auditors are appointed for a period of four years and may be reappointed once (Art 70(4) Draft Financial Regulations). They may not take up employment at the Court in the three years following their term of service and will remain in office until a successor has been found to fill their position (Art 70(5) Draft Financial Regulations).
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Saleh, Zakiah, and Haslida Abu Hasan. "The role of the Public Accounts Committee in enhancing government accountability in Malaysia." In Making Governments Accountable, 209–28. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315768618-12.

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Pearson AO, Des. "Partnering with the Auditor-General’s Office to improve the effectiveness of a Public Accounts Committee." In Making Governments Accountable, 24–35. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315768618-2.

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Walker, David. "Tax and spend decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy?" In Data in Society, 237–46. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0019.

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Democracy requires public understanding of the numbers underpinning tax and spend decisions. Austerity is the programme of government cuts in the UK since 2010. One might have expected this to have directed attention to political arithmetic and through improved public financial knowledge to have enhanced UK democracy. The flow of information has been deepened by the Office of Budget Responsibility, Whole of Government Accounts and the activism of the National Audit Office and the Commons Public Accounts Committee. In principle, the public could know more. Such developments sit comfortably with political commitments to restrain the state and sharpen its accountability and effectiveness. Yet austerity itself was necessitated by reference to ‘magical’ numbers – about spending and debt -- and aided and abetted by media mishandling of fiscal data. The decade from 2010 has also seen government ministers resist transparency in tax affairs, abandon financial accountability in health (in England) and condone the drying up of data across a swathe of social policy, especially welfare and education. It is hard to say that on balance the ‘fiscal conversation’ is any better informed. If ending austerity and assent to higher tax depend on better public understanding of numbers, prospects do not look bright.
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Conference papers on the topic "Public Accounts Committee"

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Murray, Chris, David Wild, Ann McCall, John Mathieson, and Ben Russell. "Legitimacy as the Key: The Long-Term Management of Radioactive Waste in the UK." In ASME 2003 9th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2003-4828.

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This paper provides an overview of the current status of radioactive waste management in the UK from the point of view of Nirex, the organisation responsible for providing safe, environmentally sound and publicly acceptable options for the long-term management of radioactive materials. Essentially, it argues that: • the waste exists and must be dealt with in an ethical manner; • legitimacy is the key to public acceptance of any attempt to solve the waste issue; and • credible options and a new political will allow, and indeed, compel this generation to deal with it. In doing this, the paper takes account of a number of recent announcements and ongoing developments in the UK nuclear industry, in particular: • the recent announcement that Nirex is to be made independent of industry; • the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Devolved Administrations’ Managing Radioactive Waste Safely consultation exercise; • the creation of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management to oversee the consultation; • the creation of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to manage the civil nuclear site clean-up programme; • proposals for improved regulation of Intermediate Level Waste conditioning and packaging; and • proposals by the European Commission for a new radioactive waste Directive. These institutional and policy changes amount to an evolution of the back-end of the fuel cycle that represents the most radical transformation in the UK nuclear industry for many years. In a large part, this is a transformation made necessary by past failures in trying to impose a solution on the general public. Therefore, in order for these changes to result in a successful long-term radioactive waste management programme, it is necessary to pay as much attention to political and social concerns as scientific and technical ones. Primarily it is crucial that all parties involved act in an open and transparent manner so that the decisions made achieve a high degree of legitimacy and thus public acceptance. Crucially too, the problem must be framed in the correct term — that the waste exists irrespective of the future of nuclear power and that this is an issue that must be addressed now. Thus there is a legitimacy of purpose and scope in moving forward that addresses the ethical imperative of this generation dealing with the waste. Put together with the action the government is taking to create the necessary institutional framework, Nirex believes that for the first time in a generation the UK has the building blocks in place to find a publicly acceptable, long-term solution for radioactive waste.
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Giannelos, Kalli, and Bernard Reber. "The arena of academic ethics and research facing the requirements of citizen participation or affected publics: risks, conflicts and conditions." In 2ème Colloque International de Recherche et Action sur l’Intégrité Académique. « Les nouvelles frontières de l’intégrité ». IRAFPA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56240/cmb9910.

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Ethical reflection can be of use to any actor in the academic and research world, involving different responsibilities: scientific integrity, general or disciplinary – questions relating to ethics committees, research ethics, or even broader responsibilities relating to the uses and possible impacts of the work undertaken. This last type of concern has been taken into account under the vague notion of responsible research and innovation (RRI), which includes ethics at all levels, and therefore scientific integrity, but also participation and open science. However, it is not easy to combine ethics, participation and openness. This perspective thus proposes a renewal of the reflection on the categories of responsibility and integrity in Research and Innovation (R&I), as well as on the conditions of possibility of ethical participation, in regard to the publics involved, the operating modes and the purposes targeted and included in its operationalization.
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Labalette, Thibaud, Alain Harman, and Marie-Claude Dupuis. "The Cige´o Industrial Geological Repository Project." In ASME 2011 14th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2011-59265.

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The Planning Act of 28 June 2006 prescribed that a reversible repository in a deep geological formation be chosen as the reference solution for the long-term management of high-level and intermediate-level long-lived radioactive waste. It also entrusted the responsibility of further studies and investigations on the siting and design of the new repository upon the French Radioactive Waste Management Agency (Agence nationale pour la gestion des de´chets radioactifs – Andra), in order for the review of the creation-licence application to start in 2015 and, subject to its approval, the commissioning of the new repository in 2025. In late 2009, Andra submitted to the French government proposals concerning the implementation and the design of Cige´o (Centre industriel de stockage ge´ologique). A significant step of the project was completed with the delineation of an interest zone for the construction of the repositor’s underground facilities in 2010. This year, Andra has launched a new dialogue phase with local actors in order to clarify the implementation scenarios on the surface. The selected site will be validated after the public debate that is now scheduled for the first half of 2013. This debate will be organized by the National Public Debate Committee (Commission nationale du de´bat public). In parallel, the State is leading the preparation of an territorial development scheme, which will be presented during the public debate. The 2009 milestone also constitutes a new step in the progressive design process of the repository. After the 1998, 2001 and 2005 iterations, which focused mainly on the long-term safety of the repository, the Dossier 2009 highlighted its operational safety, with due account of the non-typical characteristics of an underground nuclear facility. It incorporates the first results of the repository-optimisation studies, which started in 2006 and will continue in the future. The reversibility options for the repository constitute proposals in terms of added flexibility in repository management and in package-recovery levels. They orient the design of the repository in order to promote those reversibility components. They contribute to the dialogue with stakeholders in the preparation of the public debate and of the future act on the reversibility conditions of the repository. The development of the repository shall be achieved over a long period, around the century. Hence, the designer will acquire additional knowledge at every new development of the project, notably during Phase 1, which he may reuse during the following phase, in order, for instance, to optimise the project. This process is part of the approach proposed by Andra in 2009 pursuant to the reversibility principle.
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Parotte, C. "Social Scientist on Board in Long-Term Management of High Level and/or Long-Lived Radioactive Waste in Belgium." In ASME 2013 15th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2013-96369.

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In Belgium, the long-term management of radioactive waste is under the exclusive competence of the Belgian Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials (knew as ONDRAF/NIRAS). Unlike low-level waste, no institutional policy has yet been formally approved for the long-term management of high level and/or long-lived radioactive waste (knew as B&C waste). In this context, ONDRAF/NIRAS considers the public and stakeholders’ participation as an essential factor in the formulation of an effective and legitimate policy. This is why it has decided to integrate them in different ways during the elaboration of the Waste Plan (ONDRAF/NIRAS-document containing guidelines to make a principled policy decision about nuclear waste management). To do so, social scientists have been regularly mobilized either as external evaluators, follow-up committee members, or participatory observants. Hence, the Waste Plan is only the first step in a long decision-making process. For a PhD student under contract with ONDRAF/NIRAS, this mandate consists of thinking out a way to construct an inter-organizational innovative communication system that would be participative, transparent and embedded in a long-term perspective, thus integrating all the further legal steps to take throughout the decision-making process. In this regard, two paradoxical constraints must be taken into account: on the one hand, my own influence on the legal decision-making process should remain limited, because of a series of constraints, lock-ins and previous decisions which have to be respected; on the other hand, ONDRAF/NIRAS expects the research conclusions to be policy relevant and useful. In this paper, the purpose is twofold. Firstly, the issues raised by this policy mandate is an opportunity to question the performative dimensions of the social scientist in the decision-making process and, more specifically, to have a reflexive view on our position as PhD Student. Secondly, assuming the role of “embarked” social scientist, numerous of answers will discuss to face the different dilemmas of the researcher “in action”. Those reflections follow on, among others, those from previous papers discussed in Quimper in April 2013 [1] and in Leuven in June 2013 [2].
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Miranda, Samuel. "The Role of the NRC in License Renewals." In 2018 26th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone26-81904.

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So far, the licenses of more than 85% of US operating plants have been renewed, authorizing them to continue operations for an additional 20 years past the end of their original, 40-year operating licenses. 10 CFR §54, which governs the NRC’s renewal of plant operating licenses, defines the Current Licensing Basis (CLB), and its role in license renewal applications. The CLB includes, inter alia, compliance with all the regulations in 10 CFR §50, and its appendices, including the design-basis information presented in final safety analysis reports (FSARs). Appendix A of 10 CFR §50 specifies the General Design Criteria (GDCs), and defines the conditions under which they must be satisfied. For example, Appendix A defines anticipated operational occurrences (AOOs) as incidents that may occur during the lifetime of a particular plant. Two standards of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) [1] [2] redefined AOOs as incidents that may occur during the calendar year for a particular plant, and added a class of events that may occur during the lifetime of a particular plant. The ANS standards defined a categorization scheme that puts all the various types of incidents into four categories (i.e., Conditions: I, II, III, and IV), and specifies the GDCs and other criteria that must be met for each of the categories. AOOs, or Condition II events, for example, must not result in any fuel damage. Licensees have committed to abide by the ANS categorization system, and to comply with all of the categories’ acceptance criteria. These commitments are in their Final Safety Analysis Reports (FSARs), which are part of their CLBs. Conditions I, and II define relatively frequently occurring incidents, and require that their consequences to be benign. Condition III events, however, are limited to only a very few incidents during the lifetime of a plant. Their consequences are not benign. (Condition IV is the most severe category. Condition IV events are not expect to occur at all.) Since the frequency of occurrence of Condition III events is defined in terms of plant lifetime, it follows that lengthening the plant lifetime (e.g., from 40 to 60 years) will lead to the occurrence of more Condition III events. These events can result in fuel damage, or worse. The CLB of a renewed license plant, therefore, will have to account for more Condition III events. This paper focuses upon how Condition III events can affect the CLB during an extended plant lifetime. It also discusses the concept of extending plant operating licenses by 20, or 40 years, and its potential impact upon the public health and safety.
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Coric, Vesna, and Ana Knezevic Bojovic. "European Court of Human Rights and COVID-19: What are Standards for Health Emergencies?" In The 8th International Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia. University of Latvia Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22364/iscflul.8.2.26.

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The European Court of Human Rights is currently facing a challenge in dealing with numerous applications linked to the COVID-19 pandemic and the related restrictions aiming to protect human life and health, which, at the same time, limit some of the most important human rights and fundamental freedoms. Legal scholars have voiced different views as to the complexity of this task, invoking the previous case law on infectious diseases and on military emergencies to infer standards that would be transferrable to COVID-19-related cases, or the margin of appreciation of domestic authorities pertaining to health care policy as the approaches ECtHR could take in this respect. The present paper argues that the ECtHR would be well advised to resort to a more systemic integrated approach, which implies the need to consider obligations emanating from other health-related international instruments in setting the standards against which it will assess the limitations of human rights during the COVID-19 outbreak. Hence, the authors reflect on the potential contribution of the integrated approach to the proper response of the ECtHR in times of the pandemic. The review shows that both the ECtHR’s caselaw on the integrated approach, as well as its theoretical foundation leave enough room for a wide application by the ECtHR of the right to health, and likewise – soft law standards emanating from the various public health-related instruments, when adjudicating cases dealing with the alleged violations of human rights committed during the COVID-19 outbreak. Subsequently, the paper critically assesses to what extent the ECtHR has taken into account the right to health-related instruments in its previous case law on infectious diseases. This is followed by a review of the existing, albeit sparse, jurisprudence of the ECtHR in its ongoing litigations pertaining to restrictions provoked by COVID-19 pandemic, viewing them also in the context of the integrated approach. The analysis shows that ECtHR did not systemically utilize the integrated approach when addressing the right to health, even though it did seem to acknowledge its potential. The authors then go on to scrutinize the relevant health emergency standards stemming from international documents and to offer them as a specific guidance to the ECtHR regarding the scope of the right to health which will help in framing the analysis and debate about how the right to health is guaranteed in the context of COVID-19. Consequently, building on the proposed integrity approach, examined theoretical approaches, and standards on the right to health acknowledged in relevant supranational and international instruments, the authors formulate guidance on the path to be taken by the ECtHR.
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Gledhill, Igle, Richard Goldstone, Sanya Samtani, Keyan Tomaselli, and Klaus Beiter. Copyright Amendment Bill Workshop Proceedings Report. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2022/0078.

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The genesis of the Copyright Amendment Bill was in 2009, when the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) initiated various studies and impact assessments. In July 2015, the DTI published a Draft Copyright Amendment Bill for public comment. The final 2017 version of the Bill was approved by Parliament in 2019 and it was sent to President Cyril Ramaphosa for action in terms of Section 79(1) of the Constitution. Section 79(1) states that “The President must either assent to and sign a Bill passed in terms of this Chapter or, if the President has reservations about the constitutionality of the Bill, refer it back to the National Assembly for reconsideration”. The President referred the Bill back to Parliament for review on 16 June 2020, on constitutionality issues. In response to the President’s reservations, Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry has invited stakeholders and other interested parties to submit written submissions on certain sections of the Bill by no later than 9 July 2021. The current copyright law is outdated and does not address the digital environment. The Academy of Science of South Africa seeks to take into account the status of the copyright legislation and the anticipated effects of the amendment Bill on different issues and thereafter, provide recommendations to the President.
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