State Control
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State Control ![]()
- Constitution of Estonia
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CHAPTER XI. State Control
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| Article 132.
State Control is an independently functioning state agency commissioned to
carry out financial audit.
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| Article 133.
State Control audits:
(1) the financial activity of state agencies, state enterprises and other
state organizations;
(2) the use and maintenance of state property;
(3) the use and management of state property in the possession of local
governments;
(4) the financial activity of enterprises wherein the state has more than
half the votes determined by shares or stocks, or whose loans or performance on
contractual agreements are guaranteed by the state.
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| Article 134.
State Control is headed by the state controller, who is appointed to and
relieved from office by the State Assembly, on the recommendation of the
President of the Republic.
The term of office of the state controller is five years.
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| Article 135.
The state controller submits a report to the State Assembly about the use and
maintenance of state property during the previous fiscal year, while the
implementation report of the state budget is being discussed in the State
Assembly.
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| Article 136.
The State controller can have the floor to speak at the sessions of the
Government of the Republic in matters relating to his or her function.
The state controller, as the head of his or her agency, has the same rights
as those granted by law to ministers as heads of their respective ministries.
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| Article 137.
The regulation of state control will be established by law.
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Article 138.
The state controller can be held criminally liable only on the recommendation
of the chancellor of justice, with the majority of membership consent of the
State Assembly.
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| Draft Law on Implementing the Constitution
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