The ban shall be included in a draft emergency ordinance targeting a transparent use of public funds and a cut in public spending.
Law 672/2002 regulating public internal audit services sets that the local authorities which haven’t set up their own internal audit departments or haven’t cooperated with specialized entities to benefit from internal audit services are allowed to buy this type of services from licensed individuals by concluding service provisions contracts.
The government said it is necessary to “set some regulations as regards approving the budgets of revenue and expenditure of certain public authorities” and has therefore decided to cancel the provisions of Law 672/2002 allowing local authorities to outsource public internal audit services.