The State Audit Institution and Supreme State Prosecution of Montenegro pledge to jointly accelerate processing of economic crimes. On 5 December 2018, representatives of the State Audit Institution (SAI) and the Supreme State Prosecution (SSP) of Montenegro signed the Protocol on Cooperation aimed at making the process of identification and prosecution of criminal activities more efficient. The Supreme State Prosecutor underlined that the Protocol will be a tool to overcome two major obstacles to effective investigations: inability of the prosecution service to adequately understand and interpret findings of audit reports and lack of capacities of auditors to put forward sufficiently substantiated criminal charges. Signing the Protocol on Cooperation was one of the recommendations provided to the authorities through the CoE/EU Horizontal Facility Action against Economic Crime in Montenegro.