State Audit Office of North Rhine-Westphalia

State Audit Office of North Rhine-Westphalia
State level	North Rhine-Westphalia
position	Supreme state authority
founding	1948
Authority management	Brigitte Mandt
Web presence	www.lrh.nrw.de

Hansahaus , seat of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Audit Office, view from Graf-Adolf-Strasse

The State Audit Office of North Rhine-Westphalia is a supreme state authority of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its seat in Düsseldorf . As an independent state organ of financial control , he checks the account and the financial management of the country on economic efficiency and regularity (d. E. To comply with the procedural and substantive legality ).

In the political system of North Rhine-Westphalia , according to the state constitution (Articles 86 and 87), it is an authority subject only to law, which is at the same level as the state government within the executive branch of North Rhine-Westphalia and is just as independent of instructions as it is of the state parliament . Parliament and its control functions works the Court to, in particular through an annual report in accordance with § 97 Landeshaushaltsordnung he feeds also the state government. Six audit offices are assigned to him. Brigitte Mandt has been President of the State Audit Office since 2012 .

On March 1, 1949, the State Audit Office of North Rhine-Westphalia officially started its activities on the basis of the State Audit Office Act of April 6, 1948, after a branch of the "Zone Audit Office" had been active for the province of North Rhine in Düsseldorf since May 8, 1946 . Since November 1959, the State Audit Office of North Rhine-Westphalia has been located in the Hansahaus at the former Wilhelmsplatz 13 (today Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 13) in Düsseldorf.

Web links

State Audit Office of North Rhine-Westphalia (websites)

Individual evidence

↑ See legal assignment of tasks in accordance with the law on the State Audit Office , accessed on the portalrecht.nrw.de on March 25, 2015
↑ Art. 86 and 87 of the constitution for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on the portalrecht.nrw.de on March 25, 2015
↑ See tasks of the State Audit Office in §§ 88 ff. State Budget Code of North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed in the portalrecht.nrw.de on March 25, 2015

[1] See legal assignment of tasks in accordance with the law on the State Audit Office , accessed on the portalrecht.nrw.de on March 25, 2015

[2] Art. 86 and 87 of the constitution for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on the portalrecht.nrw.de on March 25, 2015

[3] See tasks of the State Audit Office in §§ 88 ff. State Budget Code of North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed in the portalrecht.nrw.de on March 25, 2015