Projects

PROJECT EU FOR FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION AND FOR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

The Project is implemented by a consortium composed of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC), the Lithuanian Central Project Management Agency (CPMA), and OSCE Mission to Serbia.

The duration of the Project is 45 months, from January 2022 to October 2025. The goal of the Project is to contribute to the achievement of the obligations stemming from Chapter 23 - Judiciary and Fundamental Rights, in line with the EU acquis, in particular in the areas of fundamental rights protection and the fight against corruption. The Agency for Prevention of Corruption is one of the key partners, besides the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior, judiciary bodies, etc.

The activities on the strengthening capacity of the Agency employees started in 2022 by exchanging information, best practices, and knowledge, especially, with the Special Investigation Service (STT). Two four days peer mission of the representatives of the Special Investigative Service of Lithuania were held, the topic of the first mission was focused on corruption prevention mechanisms, corruption risk assessment, corruption proofing of legislation, and the other one on strategic communication, education, and raising awareness on corruption related threats.

At the beginning of 2023, the study visit of the Agency's employees to Lithuania was held. It was focused on gaining additional knowledge on corruption prevention mechanisms in Lithuania, as well as experience exchange with similar institutions in this area. The meetings were held with the representatives of the Special Investigation Service, the Chief Official Ethics Commission, and the Ministry of Interior. The further activities will be focused on the development and revising of the Agency's strategic document, including the development of the communication strategy as well as training need analysis and trainings conducting.

PROJECT ON “PREVENTING MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING IN SERBIA”

The project is implemented by the Council of Europe and with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. The duration of the Project is 36 months, from January 2020 to June 2024. The project aims at supporting Serbia in addressing systemic deficiencies and bottlenecks to combatting money laundering and financing of terrorism (ML/FT) by developing an effective and sustainable framework for preventing and suppressing money laundering and terrorist financing in Serbia, inclusive of primary and secondary legislation, organisational solution, and specialisation. The Agency for Prevention of Corruption is one of the partners, besides the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering, National Bank of Serbia, the Ministry of the Interior, etc. Within the Component 7. Enhanced inter-agency cooperation on verification of asset declarations, among others, at the end of 2022, a technical paper on exchange of the information among corruption bodies and banks for the verification of asset declarations and detection of corruption was prepared. Based on the proposals in the technical paper, the Agency started process of the development of the Agreement on cooperation with the National Bank of Serbia. The activities in 2023 will be focused on the strengthening of the capacity of the Agency employees, through trainings on Detection and Reporting on Suspicious Activities and Suspicious Transaction (SARs and STRs) throughout the process of verification of asset declaration.

THE ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION IN EUROPE (OSCE)

OSCE Mission to Serbia significantly supports the Agency since its establishment by supporting different activities in the areas of lobbying, asset declaration control, introducing a gender perspective in the work of the Agency, corruption risk assessment, financing of political activities, website development, as well for the organization of international conferences dedicated to the International Anti-Corruption Day.

THE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEMS (IFES)

IFES supports the Agency for activities in the area of financing of political activities. At the end of 2022, a study visit of the Agency's employees to the State Audit Institution of the Republic of Georgia was held with the aim of exchanging the experience on the control of financing of political activities. The Manual for the implementation of the Law on Financing of Political Activities was also prepared at the end of 2022. The activities in 2023 will be focused on the development of the online training module.