[1] It is one of the seven regional working groups of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI).

EUROSAI comprises 50 members that include the Supreme Audit Institutions of 49 countries and the European Court of Auditors.

During this event, the first EUROSAI President and Governing Board were elected, the Statutes were debated and approved, and the headquarters and permanent Secretariat were established.

[9] The objectives of the organisation, defined in Article 1 of its Statutes, are to promote professional cooperation among SAI members and other organizations,[10] to encourage the exchange of information and documentation, to advance the study of public sector audit, to stimulate the creation of university professorships in this subject and to work towards the harmonisation of terminology in the field of public sector audit.

The Secretariat is held permanently by the SAI of Spain (Court of Auditors, Spanish: Tribunal de Cuentas),[17] which is also the EUROSAI headquarters.