Court of Audit (Greece)

History

Responsibilities

• advisory,
• auditing and
• judicial

Organisation

• the President,
• 5 Vice-presidents,
• 20 Councillors,
• 40 Assistant Judges and
• 50 Reporting Judges.

Competence

Advisory (consultative) competence

• Consultory responses, attached to all bills, which regulate the bestowal of pensions by the State. This competence of the Chamber may be expanded to more issues with a legislative provision.
• Consultory responses on various issues, when demanded by the ministers.

  Auditing competence

• The submission by the Chamber to the Parliament of the annual Report about the Balance of the State.
• The audit of any expenditure of the State or of the public entities.
• The supervision of all the civil servants, who are liable to render accounts.
• The observation of the public revenues.
• The audit and the control of the legality of the procedure of all public procurements and works, whose value surpasses a certain amount of money.

  Jurisdiction

• Disputes about the audit of the civil servants, who are liable to render accounts.
• Litigation arising from acts bestowing pensions, except for the pensions of the judges, according to a provision of the Constitution, reviewed in the constitutional amendment of 2001,
• Disputes about the liability of all the civil servants for any damage they caused to the State or to any public entity by fraud or gross negligence.

  Procedure

• appeal against personal administrative acts, including acts of auditing groups of the Chamber.
• writ of error against decisions of the Dempartments of the Chamber, judged by the Plenary Session.
• writ of revision, exerted for certain specific reasons and judged by the Plenary Session.