December 16, 2020 – GRECO has published two compliance reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina (Second Compliance Report from the Third Evaluation on ”Incriminations” and ”Transparency of Party Funding”) and the Second Compliance Report from the Fourth Evaluation Round (dealing with Corruption prevention in respect of members of parliament, judges and prosecutors), following the authorisation of the […]

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 – The RAI Secretariat, the Agency for Prevention of Corruption and the Health Clinical Center of Montenegro signed the Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation (MoU) on the improvement of whistleblower policies and culture in the Montenegrin public sector, through activities provided under the EU funded project  ‘Breaking the Silence: Enhancing whistleblowing […]

In September and November 2020, the Regional Anti-corruption Initiative Secretariat (RAI Secretariat) signed the Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation (MoUs) with two public institutions in North Macedonia, namely the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of North Macedonia, committing to improving their whistleblower reporting channels […]

Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents (CETS No. 205), also known as the Tromsø Convention, enters into force in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Montenegro, Norway, the Republic of Moldova, Sweden and Ukraine, on 1 December 2020. This Convention is the first binding international legal instrument to recognise a general […]

In November 2020, the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption of Serbia published the new Manual on recognizing and managing conflict of interest situations and incompatibilities. This Manual is addressed primarily to the public officials, but as well to the wider audience to improve the knowledge on the conflict of interest and with a goal […]

This week, the Commission for the Resolution of Conflicts of Interest of Croatia has issued a Guide to the provisions of the Conflict of Interest Prevention Act from 2011 and the later amendments, on preventing private influences on decision-making in the exercise of public office, strengthening integrity, objectivity, impartiality and transparency in the performance of public office, […]

The EU-Western Balkans Zagreb summit took place via video conference on 6 May 2020. EU leaders agreed on the Zagreb declaration, with which the Western Balkans partners have aligned themselves. In recalling the 2000 Zagreb, the 2003 Thessaloniki and the 2018 Sofia Summits, the Declaration once again reaffirms the European Union’s unequivocal support for the […]

Prosecutors in Sarajevo are probing whether there was any criminal activity regarding the choice to award a multi-million deal concerning the import of 100 respirators from China to a fruit and vegetable processing company. Local media reported on Monday that ‘FH Srebrena malina’ won a tender worth 10,5 million Bosnian Marks to import the respirators […]

On 10-11 February 2020, the OSCE Mission to Skopje and the Albanian OSCE Chairmanship 2020, in coordination with OSCE field operations from South East Europe, organised a regional conference discussing measures, policies and best practices in the fight against corruption, titled “Preventive measures and enforcing the law: building resilience to corruption in South East Europe”. […]

Delegation of the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI) Secretariat, composed of Mr. Vladan Joksimovic – Head of RAI Secretariat and Ms. Desislava Gotskova – Project Manager of the Regional Anti-Corruption Project met with Mr. Sotir Tsatsarov – Head of the Bulgarian Commission for Anti-corruption and Illegal Assets Forfeiture (CAIAF) and Ms, Sylvia Kadreva – Member of […]