Support to good governance: Project against corruption in Ukraine (UPAC) |
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UPAC Project aims at strengthening
Ukrainian institutions’ capacities
in their anti-corruption efforts.
The project is jointly funded by the
European Commission and the Council
of Europe. It started on 8 June 2006
and will last 36 months. Project Activities Round table on the effectiveness of the national anti-corruption policy and the role of civil society and private sector
[30 September 2008, Strasbourg]
Within
the UPAC Project’s framework the
Round table Effectiveness of the
National anti-corruption policy ,
role of civil society and private
sector will be held in Kyiv on 16
October 2008. The Round table is
aimed at: Round table on Identification, Seizure and Confiscation of Proceeds from Crime
[15 September 2008, Strasbourg]
Council
of Europe and European Commission
(through the UPAC Project) is
jointly organising with the with the
Embassy of France in Ukraine and the
Ministry of Justice of Ukraine a
roundtable on "Identification, Seizure
and Confiscation of Proceeds from
Corruption" on 19 September in
Conference on prevention of political corruption
[1 July 2008, Strasbourg]
The
Council of Europe and the European
Commission are organising a
conference on prevention of
political corruption on 1 and 2 July
in Kyiv, Ukraine. The conference is
aimed at reviewing and discussing
issues such as funding of political
parties and electoral campaigns,
immunities, integrity of elected
representatives and lobbying. The
participants will analyse the
compliance of the Ukrainian
legislation and practice with the
European standards and requirements
and recommendations of the
anti-corruption monitoring body of
the Council of Europe (GRECO) and
international best practices. At the
end of the conference the adoption
of the recommendations for system
improvement is expected to take
place. Study visit: Existing Practices in different European Anti-corruption Services
[26-30 May
2008, Paris, France, and Ljubljana, Slovenia]
The aim of the
visit was
to study different models of
preventive and law enforcement
anti-corruption bodies of France,
Slovenia and Croatia.
The main issues discussed included
the organisation and functioning of
specialised bodies, legal issues,
specialisation of police,
prosecutors and judges, inter-agency
co-operation, international
co-operation in legal matters,
police performance indicators,
statistic data in the
anti-corruption field, seizure and
confiscation of proceeds from crime.
UPAC Project Steering Committee meeting
[31 March
2008, Strasbourg]
Within the framework of the “Support to good governance: Project against corruption in Ukraine” of the Council of Europe and the European Commission Contract, a meeting of the Steering Committee will take place on 9 April 2008 in Kiev, Ukraine. In the course of this meeting the project partners are expected to review the progress made in the last six months as well as to agree on priorities and details concerning the forthcoming activities.
An updated version of the Project Summary has been released
Workshop on European standards of legislation, regulations and practices on financing of political parties and electoral campaigns in the light of European standards[29 January 2008, Strasbourg] The workshop was aimed at providing analysis of GRECO recommendations, Venice Commission and other CoE standards and guidelines with respect to the regulations and practices in financing political parties and election campaigns. CoE expert, Mr Quentin Reed, presented a technical paper/written expertise outlining the CoE recommendations on financing of political parties and election campaigns explaining the GRECO Third Evaluation Questionnaire on Transparency of Political Party Funding A Round Table discussion on "Development of proposals on establishing anti-corruption body in Ukraine"
[15 January
2008,Strasbourg]brought
together participants from
Anti-corruption Parliamentary
Committee, Ministry of Justice,
Ministry of Presidential
Secretariat, Prosecutor’s General
Office, Ministry of Interior,
Council of National Security and
Defence, anti-corruption NGOs,
international organisations and
media to discuss institutional
framework for future anti-corruption
body/ies in Ukraine.
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