Agency for Prevention of Corruption

Announcement from the 75th session of the Council of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption

July 7, 2022

At today's session, the Council of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption discussed the Information related to the activities of the Section for Monitoring of Legislation and Giving Opinions on Anti-Corruption, in the part of the Methodology for assessing the risk of regulatory corruption in Montenegro.

At the initiative of the Agency, an activity related to the preparation of an Analysis on the need and importance of introducing a corruption risk assessment as a mandatory part of the legislative process was implemented in the aforementioned area, which would significantly strengthen the competence and role of the Agency in the part of assessing corruption risks in the norm, which in itself is a prerequisite for the elimination of further systemic risks from the aforementioned phenomenon.

The mentioned activity was carried out as part of the project "Strengthening capacities for faster accession of Montenegro to the European Union", which is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, and is implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in cooperation with the Office for European Integration and the Secretariat-General of the Government of Montenegro.

The international expert who was engaged through the mentioned project, created a document containing:

- A comparative analysis covering the practices of 11 countries

- An analysis of the situation in Montenegro, with recommendations for improving the situation in this area, and

- Proposal of the CPL Checklist, i.e. a table with questions related to preliminary control of corruption risks.

The above-mentioned documents will be used in the planning and design of the following activities in order to improve the legal framework in this area in Montenegro, and the Agency will submit the aforementioned checklist to the Government of Montenegro together with the initiative related to the provision of the obligation to implement preliminary control of corruption risks during the legislative process, which would be regulated by the future Law on the Government.

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