Government of Montenegro Directorate for Anti-Corruption Initiative

1. Government of MontenegroDirectorate for Anti-Corruption Initiative Prevention of Corruption by the Directorate for Anti-Corruption Initiative Bratislava, 30 June – 1 July 2009

2. Directorate’s Competences • Implementing promotional and preventive anti-corruption activities (public awareness raising, education, research work) • Cooperating withstate bodies (in preparation and implementationof legislation and programme documents, and in reporting corruption), with NGO and private sector • Proposing adoption and implementation of European and international standards to the Government • Monitoring implementation of GRECOrecommendations • Coordinating implementation activities of the UNCAC • Performing other activities arising from the membership inRegional Cooperation Council for SEE, and other international organizations and institutions

3. Raising public awareness • Media Campaigns • Promotion of DACI’s, NMC and other state bodies’ work (NAP) • Promotion of national and international AC legal instruments • General public, public sector, private sector, education sector • Billboards, brochures, leaflets; TV and radio programmes; press conferences, conferences, round table discussions… • Educational Activities • Lectures and workshops for civil servants, high school and university students, on regular basis, as well as number of ad hoc lectures and presentations, in cooperation with NGOs • Communication with General Public on regular basis • DACI’s Communication Strategy

4. Raising public awareness • Increased level of public awareness and public trust in DACI (number of citizens’ reports to DACI in 2008 was 40, and almost 50 in the first half of 2009) • Good cooperation with media (increased presence of DACI in mass communication media) • Publishing and distributing: “Anticorruption Guide for Secondary Schools”, “Participation of private sector in combating corruption”, “Reporting corruption in the process of privatization”, “Your NO Counts”, ”Report corruption, the rest is our responsibility”… • Launching Internal bulletin in 2009 (quarterly, two issues published)

5. Research Activities With the support of UNDP Montenegro: • Integrity and Capacity Assessment of Judiciary (2008) • Integrity and Capacity Assessment of Local Governance (2008-09) With the support of Norwegian MFA: • Survey on Corruption in the Private Sector in Montenegro (2009) Planned: • Integrity and Capacity Assessment of Public Administration

6. Research Activities • Sources of valuable information on scopes, forms, causes and mechanism of corruption and recommendations for improvements in specific sectors • Useful information in drafting/amending legislation, in better designing and targeting sectoral/national anti-corruption efforts, basis for measuring the progress and effects of these efforts • Better designing and targeting of DACI’s activities

7. International Obligations/Cooperation • GRECO (coordination, implementation, monitoring, reporting) • UNCAC (promotion, harmonization of legislation) • Implementation of activities under: Regional anti-corruption initiative (RAI) Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) The Stolen Asset RecoveryInitiative (StAR) European Partner for Fight Against corruption (EPAC) Enhanced Permanent Dialogue(EPD) Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) UNDOC Global AC Campaign MoUs with Slovenian Commission for Prevention of Corruption and Macedonian State Commission for Prevention of Corruption

8. GRECO • Joint First and Second Evaluation Rounds for Montenegro: 24 recommendations (October 2006) • Compliance Report on Montenegro (December 2008): • Two-thirds of GRECO recommendations (16/24), progressachieved in virtually all areas tackled in recommendations • Recognition of DACI’s success in fulfilling recommendations, (undertaking research on corruption issues and its forms, revising Public Procurement Law, NAP monitoring, training for auditors and accountants...) • Next evaluation July 2010.

9. UNCAC With the support of UNDP Montenegro, desktop analysis of the compliance of Montenegrin legislation with the UNCAC: • Law on Criminal Liability of Legal Entities • Law on Free Access to Information • Law on Funding of Political Parties • Law on InternationalLegalAssistance in Criminal Matters • Code of Criminal Procedure • Criminal Code • Law on Public Procurement • Law on Conflict of Interest

10. Other Legal Drafting/Analysis • Analysis of provisions of the Law on Civil Servants and Employeesconcerning protection of whistleblowers in public administration • Professional Directive for procedures for reporting corruption crimes and protection of those reporting them • DraftLaw on Integrity in Public Sector

11. Continual Activities • NAP Monitoring • DACI Capacity Building (OSCE, HRMA, Slovenian AC Commission)

12. Current Projects • EC/IPA 2007 The twining project “Combating corruption and organized crime” (2009-2010) • NMFA: “Support to Implementation of International Anticorruption Standards and instruments in Montenegro” (2009) • UNDP: Implementation of activities recommended under the Capacity Assessment of the DACI

13. Challenges • Ever broadening mandate and increasing expectations • Prospect of becoming secretariat of NMC • Strengthen the position of a national anti-corruption coordinator (First Conference on Donor Coordination in AC Policy - June 2009) • Further building of DACI’s capacities in PR, coordination, research work, knowledge management.

14. Directorate for Anti-Corruption Initiative Thank you for your attention! MirelaBakalbasic, Advisor mirela.bakalbasic@daci.gov.me www.gov.me/antikorup/