In preparations to audit European Union structural assistance for the period 2007-2013 the NAO has drawn up a Working Strategy for the period. "Such audits are not a natural duty of a Supreme Audit Institution, however, having positively rated our experience in performing EU assistance audits of the previous period the Seimas vested the NAO with this duty again," said the Auditor General Rasa Budbergytė.

The NAO will audit LTL 23.4 billion of EU structural funds assistance, i.e. 64 per cent of the total assistance allocated to Lithuania for 2007-2013. Read more 

Development of Lithuania's image is unreasonable, and funds allocated to that end are often used inefficiently, found the audit report published by the NAO. Auditor General Rasa Budbergytė pointed out that a large share of LTL 63m in the last four years spent by public institutions to measures supposedly forming the State image did not bring the expected result.

"There is a threat that Lithuania may miss its chance to improve its lagging position compared to neighbouring countries who, started to form their image earlier, and lose a regional competitive struggle in areas of investment attraction, promotion of tourism and export," said the Auditor General. Read more

Electronic information is not fully safe in Lithuania, because there is a lack of systematic approach of the State towards this area, found a preliminary study, which assessed security of strategic information in Lithuania. The NAO stated that there is a lack of consistent and thorough legal regulation in this area, as well as no clear division of functions and cooperation among institutions, whose task it is to ensure information security; strategic electronic information security objects are not defined, there is no management and response system to threat prevention and effects of incidents in place. Therefore in case of threat to electronic information security it would not be clear as to who by and how it should be managed.  Read more

Only a quarter of Lithuanian consumers feel that they are sufficiently protected from low quality goods and services, despite the fact that consumer rights are protected by 18 State and 60 municipal institutions, public entity European Consumer Center, as well as 20 consumers‘ associations. Their activities are coordinated by the State Consumer Rights Protection Authority.
Auditor General Rasa Budbergytė pointed out that often consumers do not know where to turn to when their rights are violated, because the competence of the responsible institutions is not enough clear; institutions duplicate each other‘s activities. Therefore often consumer complaints are sent from one institution to another for a long time, howerver, without any clear answer to a consumer, while sanctions are not always imposed on sellers of low quality goods and providers of low quality services. Read more