The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation and the Office of the Auditor General of Norway in 2006-2007 conducted a parallel audit of the Management and Control of Fish Resources in the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea. The audit was performed in parallel in the sense that common audit questions and audit criteria were defined and the same outline was used for the reports. The two audit reports were written separately and on the basis of independent information.
The audit topics were:
- Assessment of the scope of illegal and unregistered cod fishing
- Implementation of decisions taken by the Fisheries Commission
- Resource control
- Sanctions for violations of acts and regulations
- Distribution and filling of quotas
- Analysis of the execution of the joint Norwegian-Russian research programmes
On the basis of the two parallel investigations, a joint memorandum was signed by the Auditors General of the two countries on 18 June 2007. The memorandum presents the common assessments and sums up the national results
