Tymofiy Motrenko, the Head of the Main Department of the Civil Service of Ukraine, Oleksandr Yaremenko, Deputy Head of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine and Eleonora Nikolaichuk, Sector Manager, Public Finance, Twinning, TAIEX and SIGMA, the ECD welcomed the participants of the meeting.

Joop Vrolijk, Senior adviser on Audit and Financial Control presented Sigma programme report. Peter Brooke, Former Civil Service Public Finance Manager presented information on public finance. Noel Hepworth, Former Chief Executive and the Head of International Relations CIPFA together with Andrew Anderson, Audit Manager for Audit Scotland informed the participants on internal control and external audit areas. Deputy Head of the Main Department of the Civil Service of Ukraine Andriy Vyshnevsky made the final speech.

Among the representatives of the Center for Adaptation of the Civil Service to the Standards of the European Union there were Andriy Bega, the First Deputy Director, Nataliya Kyrychenko, Deputy Director, Olesya Tsykaliuk, Acting Deputy Head of SIGMA cooperation sector and Iryna Luchynska, Senior Consultant of the Twinning and SIGMA Instruments Coordination Unit.

Representatives of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, State Treasury of Ukraine, the Main Control and Revision Office of Ukraine, Kyiv State Regional Administration took part in the meeting.

  

Reference: in April, 2010 SIGMA mission to Ukraine took place. During the mission there were conducted the meetings with the key government officials of financial-economic sector of Ukraine, including the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, the Main Control and Revision Office of Ukraine, the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine, the structural units of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, responsible for financial policy as well as other stakeholders, including non-governmental agencies.