Tackling corruption for EU integration 2

About MANS · 24/11/2009

Purpose of this publication is to point out shortcomings in work of the National Commission and present regional experiences, document  hortcomings of the official system for Action Plan monitoring and provide a clearer picture on reforms implementation in 2008, problems in accessing information and attitude towards civil society.

First chapter is describing structure and activities of the National Commission that adopted almost one third of amendments submitted to reports on implementation of the Action Plan. Case study presented in this chapter is showing that Commission members are still not provided access to relevant information, while participation of civil society representatives in the Commission activities is restricted. Examples provided in special part of this chapter are showing that some institutions are not respecting Commission’s recommendations, even when they are repeated, while some assessments from the Commission reports are contradictory to the recommendations adopted by the very same Commission.

Second chapter is describing monitoring system of the Action plan, while example of the Commercial Court shows that reports of the institutions do not include the necessary information or provide incorrect data on the implementation of their own activities. A number of examples illustrate shortcomings in the assessments of activities implementation given in the reports of the National Commission, which statistically increase the success of reform implementation MANS is monitoring the AP implementation using indicators defined by that document, that we collect by submitting requests for information to competent institutions on a basis of the Law on Free Access to Information. Third chapter is providing information on implementation of the Action Plan during 2008, showing that one fourth of activities were implemented, while almost 40% were partly implemented, and around one third of the planned measures were not implemented. Data are showing that during last year institutions conducted public campaigns and created legal, institutional and technical preconditions for fight against corruption and organized crime that did not resulted with increased number of reported and processes cases.