Corruption Prevention Commission of the Republic of Armenia

The fight for integrity never stops and can be crowned with success only thanks to highly motivated and new teams.

The Corruption Prevention Commission attaches great importance to high accountability and transparency in cooperation with international partners. The availability of Model Rules of Conduct of Public Servants in English is another step in this direction.

To equip the staff with as many professional specialists as possible, who in their image, in any behavior, and in internal beliefs will be identical to the mission of prevention and rejection of corruption, will show zero tolerance for corruption and will be ready to contribute to the establishment of the institution of prevention of corruption to the best of their ability, bringing a significant part of the society to the law-aware field, will be ready to arm themselves with new professional knowledge, skills and abilities, in the process of institutionalization of the Commission, they will contribute not only to increasing the efficiency of work, but also to set a higher qualitative and quantitative benchmark.

On August 16-18, within the framework of the EU Twinning Program ‘Fostering integrity and preventing corruption in the public sector in Armenia,’ a working discussion was held with the participation of the responsible employees of the program components of the Corruption Prevention Commission and Twinning experts. Representatives of the USAID "Integrity of Armenia" program and the Council of Europe office in Yerevan also participated in the discussion.

The report contains the works arising from the powers defined by the charter of each department, including data related to the declaration process and implemented proceedings, some statistics, information on the Commission's interaction with local and international structures, clarifications provided to various requests, as well as some details of what to do next are presented.

The Commission attaches great importance to public oversight in preventing corruption in our country. The implementation of measures aimed at public awareness also stems from the international obligations assumed by Armenia, including the United Nations Convention Against Corruption.

Department of Research Integrity of the Corruption Prevention Commission conducted a study of the integrity of 261 candidates for public office, as a result of which 257 advisory conclusions were submitted to relevant bodies.

The Commission issued a notice on July 8, 2022, to launch the e-declaration system, providing a username and password and offering a one-month deadline to submit relevant declarations by August 8, 2022.

They related to the ratio of powers and responsibilities of the bodies of the state administration system, powers of state bodies and administration, delegation of assignments and powers, as well as project, time management and conducting effective negotiations.

Taking into account the importance of the Model Rules of Conduct of Public Servants and the need to raise awareness among the public about them, below we present certain provisions from the code of conduct.

Various information campaigns will be organized in order to make the activity, functions and mandate delegated by law of the anti-corruption bodies in the Republic of Armenia as perceptible as possible among the public.

The representatives of the parties mainly raised issues related to membership fees and donations. Participants expressed concern that in the case of donations made through banks and other payment terminals, they often do not have access to the identity document data of the payers, while they are required to be included in the annual report.