Find out about all the measures announced by the government, outlined in the Anti-Corruption Programme.

The government approved this Thursday at the Council of Ministers a package of anti-corruption measures included in the new National Anti-Corruption Strategy. According to the prime minister’s first-hand account, one of the measures announced involves the confiscation of the assets of corrupt officials to prevent illicit enrichment. Know all sizes.

Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said the package’s main focus “is on achieving greater effectiveness in prevention, repression and speed in the fight against corruption.”

Justice Minister Rita Judice warned that “Anti-corruption program’ it is a “commitment” and a guarantee that it is a “realistic” agenda, drawn up “on the basis of the Government’s program in the light of dialogue with other parliamentary groups”.

According to Rita Yudice, the agenda is based on four pillars: prevention, effective punishment, procedural speed and protection of the public sector.

The creation of a mechanism for mass confiscation of assets, which may include in certain cases relief from the presumption of conviction, is one of the measures provided for by the Anti-Corruption Program.

Another measure the government intends to implement is the registration of a legislative “footprint” as a way of increasing control over government decisions.

“We are aware of a pilot project to register the legislative footprint of the Socialist Party. The difference will be that we hope that ours will work. We will try to learn from what went wrong,” the Minister of Justice explained. .

Increasing the capacity of the BASE portal and expanding judicial sales through electronic auctions are two measures included in the anti-corruption package.

The creation of a “black list” of government suppliers is a measure included in the presented agenda. The government also approved measures to speed up processes.

“Let’s put our hand to the wound, consider the investigation stage, processes often drag on for years,” said Rita Yudice.

The Minister of Justice assured that the government wants to “speed up the receipt of information through interaction between various government agencies.”

Rita Yudice warned that to fight corruption it is necessary to “create a new mentality and culture of social integrity, as well as a society that is more resistant to corruption.”

32 measures of the Anti-Corruption Program

1. Regulating lobby activities through the creation of a transparency regime and a Code of Conduct;
2. Agenda of decision makers and taking into account the “legislative footprint” – Verification of decisions made by government bodies;
3. Implementation of the Government Risk Prevention Plan;
4. Strengthen the use of public legal offices, avoiding excessive use of external legal advice;
5. Strengthen public consultation – strengthen digital means of public consultation in legislative processes;
6. Deepening the principle of “Open Government” through the active provision of documents and administrative data;
7. Strengthen the capabilities of the Core Portal as a verification tool;
8. Make judicial sales transparent through an obligation to sell via electronic auction;
9. Create new mechanism extended loss of assets to the state;
10. Reform the organization and expand the tools of asset recovery and property management offices;
11. Strengthening additional punishment in the form of a ban on the exercise of public or political functions;
12. Creation of a “black list” of government suppliers;
13. Equalize the fines of the General Regime for the Prevention of Corruption and the Regime for the Prevention of Money Laundering;
14. Strengthen the mechanism for protecting whistleblowers about corruption and cartels in public procurement;
15. Introduce a single reporting channel for the entire Government;
16. Restructuring and strengthening the resources of the National Anti-Corruption Mechanism (MENAC);
17. Strengthening the resources of the General Inspectorates and their coordination with the criminal police and the prosecutor’s office;
18. Implement the results of the work of the working group in the field of administrative and tax justice;
19. Strengthen the judge’s powers of conduct and assessment in criminal proceedings;
20. Reduce the scope of the investigation phase of criminal proceedings by limiting the use of adjournment procedures;
21. Review the appeals regime regarding the consequences and timing of appealing to a higher court;
22. Expand mechanisms for award cooperation within criminal proceedings;
23. Digital mechanisms for the exchange of information between judicial authorities, criminal police authorities and other government agencies;
24. Update the legal regime for obtaining evidence in the digital environment;
25. Facilitate the processing of evidence through the use of technological tools;
26. Electronic processing of investigations in criminal proceedings;
27. Update the training program for magistrates, judicial officers and criminal police officers;
28. Make more flexible and expand courts’ access to specialized technical advice;
29. Publish a collection of court decisions on corruption;
30. Ensure that replacement appointments are accompanied by a public competition to fill the vacancy;
31. Create a professional development program for employees involved in public procurement processes;
32. Strengthening the content of curricula in basic and secondary education on ethics, financial literacy, corruption and relations between citizens and the state.