{"id":3199,"date":"2018-10-26T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2019-11-27T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T12:30:59","slug":"3199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/3199.html","title":{"rendered":"The Report of the 4th round of the Monitoring of the Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan of the OECD ACN was presented: New Recommendations were given to Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 26 October, 2018, the 4th round of the Monitoring Report of Armenia<\/a> on the Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (OECD) Anti-Corruption Network of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has been presented in Yerevan.<\/p>\n

The report was presented for about three dozen representatives of the state and public sector, including the representatives of the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association Suzanne Soghomonyan and Marat Atovmyan, and experts of the Armenian Anti-Corruption Coalition Carl Ulbricht and Eastern Partnership Civil Society Fellow Mariam Zadoyan.<\/p>\n

The report includes the achievements and challenges of Armenia in the fight against corruption. Particularly, the development of public service and civil service legislation, legislative reforms in the field of ethics and conflict of interest, criminalization of illicit enrichment, the establishment of the Corruption Prevention Committee, the establishment of a whistleblowers\u2019 system, the introduction of the \u00a0beneficial owners institute in the procurement field. The meeting participants also discussed the implementation of recommendations assigned to Armenia as well as the new recommendations given to Armenia by the OECD Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan.<\/p>\n

Ms Mariam Zadoyan, the Project Manager of the Armenian Lawyer’s Association (ALA) component of the\u00a0“Armenia: Promoting Anti-Corruption Conduct and Reforms\u201d Project\u00a0raised the issue of criminal liability for legal entities. In response to this question, it was noted that the Ministry of Justice of Armenia attaches importance to the introduction of the institute in Armenia and the New Draft Criminal Code will be put on the political agenda again.<\/p>\n

This material has been prepared in the scope of the \u201cArmenia: Promoting Anti-Corruption Conduct and Reforms\u201d Project implemented by the \u201cCenter for International Private Enterprise\u201d, the \u201cArmenian Lawyers\u2019 Association\u201d NGO, the \u201cCorporate Governance Center\u201d NGO and the \u201cYerevan Chamber of Commerce and Industry\u201d with financial support of the National Endowment for Democracy. The project is implemented as a co-financing to the \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d action implemented with the financial support of the European Union by a Consortium comprising the “Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association” NGO, the “Armenian Center for Democratic Education-CIVITAS” NGO, the “International Center for Human Development” NGO, the “SME Cooperation Association” NGO, the Union of Communities of Armenia, as well as “Agora Central Europe” NGO (Czech Republic). The contents of this material are the sole responsibility of the \u201cArmenian Lawyers\u2019 Association\u201d NGO and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the National Endowment for Democracy and the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 26 October, 2018, the 4th round of the Monitoring Report of Armenia on the Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (OECD) Anti-Corruption Network of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has been presented in Yerevan. The report was presented for about three dozen representatives of the state and public sector, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5188,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/5188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}