Main functions of the
Anti-Corruption Policy Directorate:
Main Tasks of the Directorate:
1) Analysis and generalization of data on corruption and counteraction to it, preparation of information necessary for adopting well-grounded and justified decisions in the sphere of state anti-corruption policy;
2) Ensuring the formulation of the state anti-corruption policy;
3) Ensuring the legal analysis of draft and current normative legal acts in the sphere of state anti-corruption policy, development, as well as ensuring expert and analytical support of developed draft acts in the sphere of state anti-corruption policy at all stages of the law-making process;
4) Ensuring the coordination of the implementation of the state anti-corruption policy;
5) Ensuring the monitoring of the implementation of the state anti-corruption policy;
6) Ensuring the conduct of an assessment of the effectiveness of the implementation of the state anti-corruption policy;
7) Encouraging the executors of the State Anti-Corruption Program to timely and effective implementation of the measures stipulated therein;
8) Ensuring the population of the Management Information System for the Implementation of the State Anti-Corruption Policy (hereinafter – ISM SACP) with information on the progress, dynamics, and results of monitoring and effectiveness assessment of the Anti-Corruption Strategy and the State Anti-Corruption Program implementation.
Main Functions of the Directorate:
1) Ensuring the conduct of research aimed at establishing general indicators and causes of corruption in Ukraine, its public perception, determining the level of public trust in anti-corruption and other state institutions, etc., with the aim of ensuring the formulation of the state anti-corruption policy;
2) Analysis and, if necessary, ensuring the visualization of statistical data, results of conducted research, as well as other information regarding corruption and the state of compliance with anti-corruption legislation requirements, including Ukraine's place in international rankings and indices that may reflect the level of transparency, integrity, and the corruption situation in the state, with the aim of ensuring the formulation of the state anti-corruption policy;
3) Studying the state of prevention and combating corruption in Ukraine, as well as the effectiveness of the activities of state bodies, authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and local self-government bodies in the sphere of corruption prevention and combating;
4) Establishing the main factors (causes) that lead to the commission of corruption and corruption-related offenses, as well as non-compliance with other requirements of anti-corruption legislation, with the aim of ensuring the formulation of the state anti-corruption policy;
5) Ensuring the identification and continuous updating of the list of the most corruption-affected areas, as well as the list of the most common corruption practices in these areas, with the aim of developing relevant proposals;
6) Ensuring the interaction of the National Agency with the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Parliament) and its committees, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, government committees, the National Anti-Corruption Policy Council, ministries, and other state bodies in the field of providing key information on the state of corruption prevention and counteraction, with the aim of enabling the specified bodies to take such information into account during the formation of state anti-corruption and sector-specific policy;
7) Developing drafts of the Anti-Corruption Strategy and the State Anti-Corruption Program, ensuring their submission for consideration by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;
8) Ensuring the coordination (approval) of draft normative legal acts developed by ministries and other state bodies that concern issues of the formulation and implementation of the state anti-corruption policy;
9) Ensuring the assessment of Ukraine's implementation status of international obligations in the sphere of formulating and implementing state anti-corruption policy, as well as expert and analytical support (preparation of self-assessment reports, responses to questionnaires, other analytical materials, participation in expert discussions, etc.) for the implementation of international monitoring mechanisms in Ukraine, particularly the mechanism for reviewing the status of implementation of the UN Convention Against Corruption, the work of the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO), and the monitoring of the Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia;
10) Facilitating the uniform application of anti-corruption legislation, as well as legislation on criminal and administrative liability regarding corruption prevention and counteraction, through the preparation and dissemination of methodological (scientific and practical) recommendations;
11) Ensuring periodic analysis of the quality of current anti-corruption and related legislation (legislation on criminal and administrative liability, etc.), as well as analysis of the main problems in this area, studying and generalizing the practice of implementing this legislation;
12) Developing concepts and proposals for improving anti-corruption legislation, legislation on criminal and administrative liability regarding corruption prevention and counteraction, as well as recommendations for increasing the effectiveness of activities of specially authorized subjects in the sphere of anti-corruption;
13) Developing drafts legislative acts in the sphere of state anti-corruption policy, as well as draft acts in other areas defined by the State Anti-Corruption Program, if the National Agency is designated as the main developer of these acts;
14) Providing expert and analytical support for public discussion, coordination with interested bodies, support during legal expertise by the Ministry of Justice, processing in the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, government committees, as well as finalizing, if necessary, draft acts developed by the Directorate;
15) Providing expert and analytical support for the consideration of draft legislative acts developed by the Directorate by the committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine during their preparation for the first and subsequent readings, as well as finalizing these draft acts if necessary;
16) Participating in the development, finalization, and discussion of draft legislative and other normative legal acts developed by other state bodies and subjects of legislative initiative;
17) Preparing conclusions (positions) of the National Agency regarding draft normative legal acts developed by ministries and other state bodies that concern issues of the formulation and implementation of the state anti-corruption policy;
18) Conducting continuous monitoring of the legislative process, identification and analysis of draft laws that may affect the state anti-corruption policy or the state of corruption in Ukraine, preparing conclusions (positions) of the National Agency regarding draft laws, as well as participating in their subsequent discussion and finalization;
19) Ensuring the cooperation of the National Agency with the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and its committees, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, government committees, the National Anti-Corruption Policy Council, ministries, and other state bodies on issues of formulating and implementing state anti-corruption policy; ensuring the participation of National Agency representatives in the activities of working groups created under the committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, as well as in the activities of working groups, consultative, advisory, and other auxiliary bodies created by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, ministries, and other state bodies;
20) Developing and supporting the process of approval, as well as state registration, of procedures that define the mechanisms for coordinating the implementation, monitoring, and effectiveness assessment of the Anti-Corruption Strategy and the State Anti-Corruption Program; ensuring the periodic review of these National Agency acts;
21) Providing methodological and analytical support for the process of coordinating, monitoring, and assessing the effectiveness of the implementation of the state anti-corruption policy;
22) Conducting continuous coordination of the implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy and the State Anti-Corruption Program;
23) Providing consultative and methodological assistance to state bodies, local self-government bodies, or other subjects designated as executors of the State Anti-Corruption Program measures, in the process of their execution of the relevant measures;
24) Conducting continuous monitoring of the effectiveness of the implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy and the State Anti-Corruption Program;
25) Conducting an annual assessment of the effectiveness of the implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy and the State Anti-Corruption Program;
26) Ensuring the creation and functioning of the Anti-Corruption Policy Coordination Working Group as a consultative and advisory body under the National Agency (if a decision is made regarding the necessity of creating such a body);
27) Conducting a general monitoring and effectiveness assessment of the formulation and implementation of the state anti-corruption policy;
28) Taking measures aimed at encouraging the executors of the State Anti-Corruption Program to timely and effective implementation of the measures stipulated therein, particularly by preparing materials for periodic submission of official letters to the executors of the specified program who have failed to implement or improperly implemented the measures designated for them;
29) Developing and ensuring the approval of the Procedure for the submission of statistical and other information by specially authorized subjects in the field of anti-corruption and the executors of the State Anti-Corruption Program, and the Regulation on the ISM SACP;
30) Ensuring the organization and coordination of the work of authorized ISM SACP users, and also initiating and directly participating in the improvement of the ISM SACP functionality;
31) Ensuring the population of the ISM SACP with information on the progress, dynamics, and results of monitoring and effectiveness assessment of the Anti-Corruption Strategy and the State Anti-Corruption Program implementation; developing proposals for the improvement of the ISM SACP, if necessary;
32) Ensuring the preparation of materials for the annual (by April 1) informing of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine about the results of the execution of the State Anti-Corruption Program measures, as well as for the public dissemination of these results on the National Agency's official website;
33) Ensuring the preparation of materials, if necessary, for the quarterly informing of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (including the Verkhovna Rada committee whose subject matter includes anti-corruption issues), and the President of Ukraine about the status of the State Anti-Corruption Program implementation;
34) Preparing the draft National Report on the implementation of the principles of anti-corruption policy;
35) Ensuring the preparation of materials for the leadership of the National Agency for the annual (no later than June 1) parliamentary hearings on the implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy;
36) Preparing proposals, if necessary, for the revision of the State Anti-Corruption Program based on the results of monitoring and effectiveness assessment of the Anti-Corruption Strategy implementation.
