Gyeonggi-do Praised for Pre-Consulting Audit... Awarded 'Presidential Citation'

Gyeonggi Provincial Government

Gyeonggi Province was selected as the best institution nationwide in the ‘2023 Pre-Consulting Audit Operation Performance Evaluation’ hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and received the Presidential Institutional Award.

The pre-consulting audit operation performance evaluation is conducted annually targeting metropolitan local governments to encourage excellent local governments that have promoted pre-consulting audit tasks for various regulatory reforms and regional economic revitalization.

Last year, Gyeonggi Province implemented various policies to activate the pre-consulting audit system, including ▲resolving residents' inconveniences and addressing corporate grievances through pre-consulting audits ▲upgrading existing pre-consulting audit rules to ordinances ▲securing professional positions and personnel (lawyers) for expertise enhancement and holding in-house workshops ▲expanding on-site consultation desks to public institutions ▲operating a dedicated website and promoting through G-Bus TV.

In particular, a new evaluation indicator for best practices was introduced in this evaluation, and Gyeonggi Province alleviated many residents' inconveniences by providing an audit opinion that a new land register can be created without canceling ownership and mortgage rights when preparing the land register following the completion of housing redevelopment projects.

Additionally, by presenting the opinion that temporary use approval of buildings is possible even before the completion inspection of urban planning facilities for companies supplying industrial gases to semiconductor factories, it resolved corporate grievances and was recognized for its proactive administrative performance.

Gyeonggi Province was the first in the nation to introduce the advanced preemptive audit technique, the pre-consulting audit system, in April 2014 to support proactive administration by public officials, receiving 1,562 applications and processing 1,554 cases by the end of last year.

This system has been expanded and is currently operated by central government agencies such as the Board of Audit and Inspection and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, as well as public institutions and local governments nationwide.

Choi Eun-soon, Auditor of Gyeonggi Province, stated, "The pre-consulting audit system reduces the audit burden on frontline public officials by providing audit immunity, contributing to the creation of a proactive work culture in public service," and added, "We will continue to support lawful and prompt policy decisions by public officials through preemptive audits."

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