Controle de sustentabilidade pelos tribunais de contas

Abstract

This study aims to demonstrate the possibilities of performances of the Public Accounts in implementing the principle/duty of sustainability in the broad sense (to encompass the environmental, social, economic, fiscal, legal-political and ethical dimensions) and in the strict sense (pertaining to the protection of the natural environment). Approaches the sustainability as duty and principle in conjunction with the principles interconnected to it: public participation, publicity and transparency (access to information), principles of prevention and precaution, good good governance, cooperation (international and national) and intergenerational solidarity. Presents the legal framework which should base the expanded legal control to be held at the controls of sustainability environmental, social and fiscal. It appears that the mode fiscal sustainability control and social sustainability control there is a further development of surveillance initiatives, which does not exempt the improvement in the control of results (e.g. quality of investments). As for the control of ecological / environmental sustainability a very long way has to be followed. Research indicates "good practices" of Supreme Audit Institutions from other countries. It develops the idea that the external control will concurrently be a sustainability control, by adaptations of instruments partly already used by Public Accounts. In this sense, considerations and improvement proposals were above regarding the usage of audits and coordinated audits (national and international) of sustainability, term sustainable management adjustment, implementation and quality control of public consultations and public hearings, expanded legal control (constitutional and sustainability compliance) and simultaneous sustainability of control provided by protective and precautionary measures. Control of sustainability criteria in making bids and public procurement should become included in the agendas of the Audit Courts. Simultaneously, it is suitable for the Public Accounts offers the incisive witness of sustainable consumption in their sustainable bidding.