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SCTM Develops Model Enactments for Implementing Individual Local Anti-Corruption Plan Measures

  • Belgrade, 6 November 2019

Model enactments have been developed as part of the Enhancing Good Governance at the Local Level project within the Swiss Government programme Enhancing Good Governance and Social Inclusion for Municipal Development – Swiss PRO, which is implemented by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in partnership with the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities (SCTM).

With a view to supporting the implementation of local anti-corruption plans, the SCTM drafted the main model enactments for the implementation of local anti-corruption plan measures in seven areas, including:

  • Model Decision on reporting and management of public officials’ private interests in  the procedure of adopting general enactments, the adoption of which facilitates elimination of corruption risks through the introduction of mechanisms preventing the adoption of “outcome-focused” or “outcome-based” regulations (Objective 1.2, Model LAP)
  • Model Rulebook on managing conflicts of interests of city/municipal administration staff, the adoption of which facilitates reduction of the number of conflict of interest cases of LSG staff (Objective 2.3, Model LAP)
  • Model Rulebook on the internal whistleblowing procedure and Model Certificate of receipt of whistle-blower reports, the adoption of which facilitates the full implementation and monitoring of regulations on the protection of whistle-blowers (Objective 3.1, Model LAP) 
  • Model Decision on nomination of members of supervisory boards of public companies founded by local self-governments, the adoption of which facilitates the elimination of corruption risks in the existing system of public company management at the local level (Objective 4.1, Model LAP) 
  • Model Decision on oversight of receipt and implementation of donations to local self-governments, the adoption of which facilitates the elimination of risks of donations influencing the work of LSG bodies (Objective 7.1, Model LAP) 

The model enactments are available on SCTM’s website

The development of local anti-corruption policies in Serbia has over the past few years been brought to the fore, above all, by the national 2013 Anti-Corruption Strategy and the 2016 Chapter 23 Action Plan. These two documents lay down the obligation of local self-governments to adopt local anti-corruption action plans (LAPs) and form bodies that will oversee their implementation. The SCTM has been a partner in the process from the very start, from supporting the development of the Model LAP by the Anti-Corruption Agency, based on which these plans are adopted, to the above-mentioned four-year project, which, inter alia, grants support to LSGs in adopting and implementing their LAPs and forming the local bodies that will oversee their implementation. 

All information about the activities the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities has been implementing within the Swiss PRO Programme is available on SCTM’s website