Projects

In 2023, activities focused on further strengthening the capacities of the Agency’s employees through training on recognizing and reporting suspicious and potentially suspicious activities and transactions in asset and income verification procedures, as well as through the organization of a roundtable with representatives of the prosecution.

PROJECT “COUNTERING ECONOMIC CRIME IN SERBIA”

The project “Countering Economic Crime in Serbia” is being implemented through cooperation between the Council of Europe and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, based on a funding agreement signed in December 2023. The project is planned for the period from January 2024 to July 2027.

The aim of the project is to strengthen the key pillars in the fight against money laundering, terrorist financing, and other forms of economic crime in the Republic of Serbia, as well as to align policies and practices with European and international standards, including the revised FATF recommendations and relevant European Union legislation.

The project is implemented through the provision of expert advice to improve the regulatory and operational framework, the strengthening of institutional capacities through training, workshops, mentoring, and the development of IT tools, with the aim of increasing the efficiency of the competent authorities and improving cooperation between institutions.

The Agency for the Prevention of Corruption is a beneficiary of the project within the framework of several activities, primarily in the field of corruption prevention. In this context, project activities include improving the regulatory framework for lobbying in public decision-making, including the development of a technical document and the organization of a roundtable held in May 2024.

In addition, activities are aimed at strengthening the capacity of employees responsible for corruption risk assessment in regulations by improving the existing methodology presented in March 2025 and conducting specialized training, as well as improving the complaints of citizens’ submissions through the analysis of relevant bylaws.

The project also includes activities aimed at developing mechanisms for the prevention of illegal and irregular financing of political activities. A technical document containing indicators of the influence of illegal funds in the financing of political entities was presented in May 2025.

Furthermore, the project includes activities related to mapping national databases containing relevant data for asset recovery and proposing procedures for automating access to this data, in accordance with European Union data protection standards, as well as improving cooperation and information exchange between law enforcement institutions and preventive bodies.

 

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.