15:51, 5 April 2023
YEREVAN, APRIL 5, ARMENPRESS. The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) released the Second Interim Compliance Report on Armenia corruption prevention in respect of members of parliament, judges and prosecutors.
The Second Interim Compliance Report assesses the measures taken by the authorities of Armenia to implement the recommendations issued in the Fourth Round Evaluation Report on Armenia.
GRECO, in its Fourth Round Evaluation Report, addressed 18 recommendations to Armenia. In the Interim Compliance Report, GRECO concluded that seven recommendations (v, vi, x, xii, xiii, xiv and xvii) had been implemented satisfactorily or dealt with in a satisfactory manner and eleven recommendations (i-iv, vii-ix, xi, xv, xvi and xviii) had been partly implemented. Now, in the second report, GRECO concludes that some steps have been made by Armenia to comply with the outstanding recommendations under the Fourth Evaluation Round. Of the eighteen recommendations included in the Fourth Round Evaluation Report, nine recommendations have now been implemented satisfactorily or have been dealt with in a satisfactory manner. Nine recommendations have been partly implemented.
More specifically, recommendations v, vi, x, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvii and xviii have been implemented satisfactorily or dealt with in a satisfactory manner and recommendations i-iv, vii-ix, xi and xvi have been partly implemented.
Public consultation in the law-making process has been made mandatory for draft laws initiated by the Government. A draft code of ethics for MPs and draft amendments to the National Assembly’s Rules of Procedure intended to establish a mechanism to monitor members’ compliance with ethical norms have been developed.
GRECO noted that the Armenian government continues taking active steps for implementing the outstanding recommendations.
Armenia overcame the GRECO evaluation incompatibility process and is no longer listed as having a “globally unsatisfactory” level, which it was listed from 2015 to 2019.