In response to the invitation of the National Audit Office of Lithuania, who chairs the EUROSAI Task Force on Municipality Audit (EUROSAI TFMA) since its creation in 2016, Edgar Thinnes, Head of the General Secretariat of EURORAI, took part as observer in the 4^th Annual Meeting of the EUROSAI TFMA members which was held remotely on 19 November 2020.

The EURORAI Management Committee has unanimously approved the proposal made by the General Secretariat to exempt all member institutions from the payment of the membership fee for this year. This is mainly due to the fact that because of the international situation concerning the corona virus, EURORAI has not been able to carry out the two activities which were planned for 2020, that is to say, the seminars in Frankfurt/Main and Sarajevo. 

Since October 2017, when a EURORAI delegation took part as observer in the 1^st EUROSAI TFMA Seminar and the 1^st annual meeting of EUROSAI TFMA members held in Riga, EURORAI has participated in the activities performed by the EUROSAI Task Force on Municipality Audit.

For security reasons, the EURORAI General Secretariat has been forced to close the Association's current website and already launch the new one. We are still adapting the design of the new site and migrating the content from the old one. We will make the correspondent announcement when the new website is fully operational. We apologize for any inconveniences caused by this.

In view of developments in Europe of Coronavirus infections and the standards imposed by the competent authorities, the host institution, the Court of Audit of Hesse, and the General Secretariat of EURORAI, have decided by mutual agreement to postpone the Frankfurt seminar to May 2021.

20-22 May 2021 are the new dates proposed for the event.

Please do not hesitate to contact the General Secretariat of EURORAI if you have any queries.

The final report of the working group on the improvement of external communication of EURORAI member institutions is now available and can be downloaded here. The report has been set up by the Audit Office of Andalusia in cooperation with the University of Granada on the basis of the responses received from 57 respondents to a survey whose purpose was to analyse the current situation of external communication among EURORAI member institutions.