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Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum

Sub-group meeting on 14 May 2013

The sub-group suggested to the European Commission to initiate anti-corruption report for EaP with the same methodology used for the report on corruption that is currently being produced for the EU member states. The sub-group can provide an input for such a report.

Priorities for the sub-group were defined as the following:

  • National Integrity System Assessment (currently being done by Transparency International in the EaP region). The group would like the results of the assessment to be publicised as widely as possible.
  • Reforming Parliamentary ethics;
  • Whistle-blowers’ protection;
  • Asset declaration;
  • Corruption in public procurement (important because the volume of public procurement in the region is high and this theme is included in DCFTAs).

The group would seem important to implement a regional project in the sphere of open governance: specifically on monitoring the implementation of Open Government Partnership (OGP) action plans which all EaP countries except Belarus have already adopted. This will also include producing a comparative OGP study that the group would widely advertise at the regional level with the support of the EC.


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