Constitución en Inglés

193 Corte Constitucional de Colombia Preventive and concomitant control is exceptional and nonbinding. It does not imply coadministration, nor does it comment on the suitability of public resources administrators’ decisions. This control will take the form of a warning to the fiscal manager and shall be included in a general system of public warning. The exercise and coordination of concomitant and preventive control belongs exclusively to the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic in specific matters. Oversight of the State’s fiscal management includes the permanent tracing of public resources without prejudice to fiscal control organs’ legally guaranteed access to this information or to financial oversight of management and results based on efficiency, economy, equity, sustainable development, and compliance with the principle of assessing environmental costs. The Comptroller General of the Republic will have prevalent competence to exercise control over the management of any territorial entity, in accordance with what is stipulated by law. Jurisdictional control of findings of responsibility will have special phases and procedural terms with the objective of guaranteeing the appropriate recovery of public resources. Proceedings will not last more than one year, in the form specified by law. The Office of the Comptroller General is a technical entity with administrative and budgetary autonomy. It will not have administrative functions other than those inherent in its own organization and the fulfillment of its constitutional mission. The Comptroller General will be elected by Congress, by absolute majority, in the first month of its sessions, for a term equal to that of the President of the Republic, from a list of