ET-AC-2023-09-13-meeting

 Date

Sep 13, 2023

 Participants

• @Xiaoxia Chen

• Jitsuko Hasegawa <jhasegawa@wmo.int>;

• Samantha Linnerts <samantha.linnerts@weathersa.co.za>;

• Fletzer Gerold <Gerold.Fletzer@austrocontrol.at>;

• eugene.burger@noaa.gov <eugene.burger@noaa.gov>;

• Tanja.Kleinert@dwd.de <Tanja.Kleinert@dwd.de>;

• Luis Filipe NUNES <lfnunes@wmo.int>; Anna Milan <amilan@wmo.int>
  Cc: Estelle.Grueter@meteoswiss.ch <Estelle.Grueter@meteoswiss.ch>; Rémy Giraud <remy.giraud@meteo.fr>; Albert Fischer <afischer@wmo.int>; Etienne Charpentier <ECharpentier@wmo.int>; Isabelle Ruedi <IRuedi@wmo.int>; Enrico Fucile <EFucile@wmo.int>; Yuki Honda <YHonda@wmo.int>

ET-AC

Dr Rabia MERROUCHI - Member - ( Morocco )

Mr CHOY, Boon-leung - Member - ( Hong Kong, China )

Mr Eugene BURGER - Co-chair - ( United States of America )

Mr FLETZER, Gerold - Chair - ( Austria )

Mr Freeman, Eric - Member - ( United States of America )

Mr Greg REED - Member - ( UNESCO )

Mr Thorsten BÜSSELBERG - Member - ( Germany )

Ms Fatima Zahr BENSAID - Member - ( Morocco )

Ms Nino Gelovani - Member - ( Georgia )

ET-WTR

Dr Rabia MERROUCHI - Member - ( Morocco )

Lic. Martina SUAYA - Member - ( Argentina )

Luisa Ickes - - ( Sweden )

Mr Karl MONNIK - Member - ( Australia )

Mr Lesley CHOO BOON PHENG - Member - ( Singapore )

Mr Luis Filipe NUNES - Secretariat - ( WMO Secretariat )

Mr Thinesh SORNALINGAM - Member - ( Canada )

Mr Tim OAKLEY - Member - ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland )

Ms LEE, Shuk-ming Olivia - Member - ( Hong Kong, China )

Ms Samantha LINNERTS - Vice-chair - ( South Africa )

Ms Tanja KLEINERT - Chair - ( Germany )

Zulkarnain Zulkarnain - Secretariat - ( WMO Secretariat )

 Goals

• The following issues need to be addressed firstly:

   

  • Audit objectives: it was discussed and proposed to leave the audit objective in the current status and to give in the audit report an indication if the audit objective has been met

  • Certification: currently no requirements for the issuance of WMO certificates are known to us. It is also not clear yet if WMO wants to issue unlimited or limited certificates.

  • Audit programme: adapt the audit programme based on the risk based approach (as proposed on Friday) concerning the audit method and the possibility to collect evidence with remote means.

  • Remote Audits Limitations and Risks: discuss this based on the presentation given on Friday (which also was circulated)

• background information (provided by Luis)

  • latest version of the RWC "Audit programme" provided by Samantha

  • a set of questions raised by ET-WTR collected by Tanja

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 Discussion topics

 Action items

 Decisions

• Finalize the audit programme at 26 Sep meeting

• ET-AC will prepare a template of the audit notification with information defined by the audit programme

• ET-AC will be communicated about who will be auditee (South Africa or Argentina) with necessary info on the auditee.

• ET-AC will discuss risks associated with the online audit at its October meeting

• The Self Assessment Questionnaire will be finalized by ET-WTR more or less by the same time as the audit notification.

• The Secretariat will discuss with P/INFCOM and MG if the RWC audit programme can be tentatively endorsed for the pilot, and with the condition that the auditee agrees to these tentative arrangements, audit can be carried out according to the audit programme.