The Internal Audit is independent and objective activity for conceding confidence and consultancy, designated to bring benefit and improve the activity of the organisation by applying systematic and disciplinary approach for assessment and improvement of the effectiveness of the processes for risk management, control and management.

The Internal Audit within its range is in all structures, programmes, activities and processes in NSI and is implemented in compliance with Law on Internal Audit in the public sector, methodology of the Ministry of finance, Standards for internal audit, Ethical code of the internal auditors, and observes the following principles:

1. independency and objectivity;

2. competence and professional care;

3. decency and confidentiality.

The internal audit assists the administration and the president of NSI to achieve its goals by doing to:

1. identify and assess the risks in NSI;

2. assess the adequacy and the effectiveness of the systems for financial management and control with regard to:

a) the identification, assessment and management of risk by the President of NSI;

b) the compliance with the legislation, the internal acts and the contracts;

c) the reliability and the comprehensiveness of the financial and the operative information;

d) the effectiveness, the efficiency and the economy of the activities;

e) the preservation of the assets and the information;

f) the fulfilment of the tasks and the achieving of the goals;

3. give recommendations for improvement of the activities in the organisation.