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It replaced the previous Law on the Anti-Corruption Agency and, as they say in the Ministry of Justice, it is an umbrella preventive anti-corruption regulation, which strengthens the role and capacities of the Agency.
The new law grants the Agency the right to have access at any time to the accounts of officials who, upon assuming office, must declare their income and assets, as well as the assets of their spouses, children, parents, siblings. In the event that the official does not report the real property, he is subject to criminal liability. The agency will also be obliged to act on anonymous reports, which was not possible before. The law also stipulates that public authority funds cannot be used in a political campaign, and the Agency must control that.
– Together with the previously passed Law on Organization and Competences of State Bodies in Fighting Organized Crime, Terrorism and Corruption, the Law on Lobbying and the Law on the Origin of Property, Serbia has significantly improved the regulatory framework for an even more effective fight against corruption.
Among the most important novelties is the change in the procedure for the election of the director of the Agency, so that in the future, the Ministry of Justice calls a public contest for the election of the director. The Board of Directors of the Judicial Academy will form a commission of three members to conduct the contest, and the final decision on the election, at the proposal of the Minister of Justice, is made by the National Assembly.
Public authorities are obliged to submit to the Agency, within 15 days from the date of receipt of a written and motivated request, all the documents and information at their disposal. The law also provided for the imposition of a warning measure instead of a warning measure, as well as the measure of public announcement of a recommendation for dismissal from public office. In the event that the Agency determines the suspicion of irregularities in the work of the public powers, it will present a reasoned proposal for supervision.
This law was approved on May 22 of last year and regulates the legal position, competence, organization and work of the Agency, and introduces numerous new features related to conflicts of interest, accumulation of public functions, reporting of assets and income of officials, powers of the Agency, election of governing bodies.
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