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Main activities 2011 |
Regional Workshop on "Implementing
and monitoring anti-corruption
policies, including education and
public awareness"
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A
two-day regional workshop on
mechanisms to strengthen
implementation and monitoring of
anti-corruption policies including
education and public awareness, took
place in Warsaw on 15-16 December
2011 and was a follow-up to the
workshop on designing
anti-corruption policies held in
Strasbourg on 3-4 November 2011. It
was attended by 27 national experts
mostly from government units
responsible for policy design and
advice in six Eastern Partnership
countries, as well as
representatives of civil society.
The workshop compared practices in
Eastern Partnership countries and
Poland, and allowed for an exchange
of good practices of coordinating
and monitoring the implementation of
anti-corruption measures and of
raising public awareness on
corruption. The Polish authorities
(Commissioner for Anticorruption
Procedures to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs; Central
Anticorruption Bureau; Criminal
Bureau – Combating Corruption
Division – Polish National Police)
and one Polish NGO (Batory
Foundation) greatly contributed to
the success of the workshop by
sharing their experience in panel
discussions. In addition, an
information exchange session on
practicalities and operations took
place and was hosted by the Central
Anticorruption Bureau (CBA - 
Agenda 
An
in-country launching event was
organised in Chisinau on 24 June
2011 by the Centre for Combating
Economic Crimes and Corruption (CCCEC),
to introduce the Project to the
relevant stakeholders and
institutions, and to solicit
comments and inputs to the
Workplan. The launching event
was attended by representatives
of various state institutions
and civil society organizations.
The Director of the CCCEC,
Viorel Chetraru, opened the
conference and gratefully noted
previous support of the Council
of Europe to the Republic of
Moldova during 2005-2009
(Project against corruption,
money laundering and financing
terrorism in the Republic of
Moldova "MOLICO"). The
participants presented their
views and discussed the
envisioned Pilot activities of
the Project concerning the
reform of political financing
and the development of local
strategies in the Republic of
Moldova.
The
activity was a two-fold
one: Start-up Conference of the
EaP-Corruption component Project
and EaP Expert's Panel against
Corruption under the Platform I
framework. While the regional
Panel involved nominative
representatives from all member
states, the Start-up Conference
of the Project involved
additional participants
including here experts from
relevant Georgian institutions
and representatives of civil
society organisations. Both
activities were hosted by the
Georgian authorities on 20 May
2011 in Tbilisi and co-chaired
by representatives from the
European Union Delegation to
Georgia. The Deputy Minister of
Justice in Georgia, Ms Tina
Burjaliani, opened both
activities along with the Head
of Operations of the EU
Delegation to Georgia, Mr Martin
Klaucke. The activity provided
the forum of reviewing through
different presentations the past
and present situation of
corruption in Georgia and
reforms that have started to
make a difference such as "eProcurement".
Other EaP-representatives
provided comments on recent and
on-going reforms and indicated
areas where the EaP Project
would be able to provide
assistance and
support. Following a summary on
the background, development, and
modalities of the Project, the
Draft Workplan of Activities was
discussed and adopted