About us
Organisation
Auditor General has a Deputy and Assistants, who help the Auditor General run the Office and coordinate audits and other business tasks together with heads of departments and heads of regional offices.
The Auditor General has his/her own advisory body, the Expert Council, comprised of Deputy, Assistant Auditors General and independent experts in economics, law, auditing and finances, lecturers from the University of Zagreb.
The Office organisation was modelled on that of supreme audit institutions of developed European countries.
It is set up as an independent and autonomous institution, accountable to the Croatian Parliament (Hrvatski sabor).
The State Audit Office is organised as a single institution with Central office in Zagreb and 20 regional offices in county centres. This kind of organisation is in accordance with the number and location of audited entities and thus ensures effectiveness and rationality of work performed by the Office.
The Central office consists of departments organised according to the type of audited entities and departments for legal affairs, human resources, accounting and internal audit. Public and international relations are also part of the scope of work of the Central office.
Regional offices perform audits of local and regional self-government units and other entities whose headquarters are in the same county as the regional office. The number of employees is in accordance with the number and size of audit entities. The largest regional office in number of employees is Split (17), while the least number of employees (6) is in the regional office in Gospić.
