Participation in the Spring Session of the EUROSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing
Representatives of the State Audit Office participated in the Spring Session of the Working Group on Environmental Auditing (EUROSAI WGEA), held in Madrid on 19 and 20 May 2026, organized by the Supreme Audit Institutions of Spain and Poland. The meeting was attended by more than 50 participants from European supreme audit institutions, the European Court of Auditors, the European Space Agency and the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenges of Spain. The topic of the meeting was geospatial data, remote sensing and artificial intelligence in environmental audits.
The presentations focused on presenting the experiences of supreme audit institutions in the use of spatial data and their analysis and the use of drones, artificial intelligence and satellite imagery in environmental audits. In addition, the limitations, risks and conditions that need to be met for these tools to effectively improve the quality of audits were discussed. Workshops were held on the practical use of geospatial data and artificial intelligence in environmental audits, the use of artificial intelligence for the analysis of aerial photographs and the general use of artificial intelligence in environmental audits. According to Ms. Enriqueta Chicano Jávega, President of the Spanish Court of Audit, geospatial technologies, Earth observation and artificial intelligence tools offer new opportunities for supreme audit institutions. They allow access to wider sources of information, analysis of large amounts of data, pattern detection, comparison of territories, observation of changes over time and complementing evidence collected by traditional means.
The presentations focused on presenting the experiences of supreme audit institutions in the use of spatial data and their analysis and the use of drones, artificial intelligence and satellite imagery in environmental audits. In addition, the limitations, risks and conditions that need to be met for these tools to effectively improve the quality of audits were discussed. Workshops were held on the practical use of geospatial data and artificial intelligence in environmental audits, the use of artificial intelligence for the analysis of aerial photographs and the general use of artificial intelligence in environmental audits. According to Ms. Enriqueta Chicano Jávega, President of the Spanish Court of Audit, geospatial technologies, Earth observation and artificial intelligence tools offer new opportunities for supreme audit institutions. They allow access to wider sources of information, analysis of large amounts of data, pattern detection, comparison of territories, observation of changes over time and complementing evidence collected by traditional means.
