Measures for narrowing the room for corruption in the public administration

1. Revoking the discretionary right of the public institutions managers to choose one of the first five best ranked candidates submitted by the Agency for state employees and establishing an obligation to hire the first ranked candidate;2. Every state institution to publish on its web site the systematization of work places (on the institution's web page);3. To reexamine the exemption of the employees in the Customs administration and the Public Revenue Office from the Law on Civil Servants;4. To adopt an ethical codex in the areas which are not included in the Ethical codex on civil servants (health care, education, institutions, funds, etc.);5. To conduct disciplinary acts for civil servants who violate the articles from the Ethical codex;6. To incorporate the most important articles from the Ethical codex on civil servants in the laws;7. To include a separate budget item for continual training of the public administration employees;8. The employment and advancement of the civil servants to be conducted solely on the basis of merit (the accomplished work results) through consistently abiding by the Law on Civil Servants;9. To introduce professional standards of work, as well as criteria for accountability and responsibility of the civil servants; 10. To consistently apply the system of reward and punishment of the civil servants;11. To introduce elements of a career system so that for filling the higher work positions internal announcements shall be conducted within the institutions in order to maximize the effects from the work experience and knowledge of the public administration;12. To adopt system measures directed towards...
07/05/20122

1. Revoking the discretionary right of the public institutions managers to choose one of the first five best ranked candidates submitted by the Agency for state employees and establishing an obligation to hire the first ranked candidate;

2. Every state institution to publish on its web site the systematization of work places (on the institution’s web page);

3. To reexamine the exemption of the employees in the Customs administration and the Public Revenue Office from the Law on Civil Servants;

4. To adopt an ethical codex in the areas which are not included in the Ethical codex on civil servants (health care, education, institutions, funds, etc.);

5. To conduct disciplinary acts for civil servants who violate the articles from the Ethical codex;

6. To incorporate the most important articles from the Ethical codex on civil servants in the laws;

7. To include a separate budget item for continual training of the public administration employees;

8. The employment and advancement of the civil servants to be conducted solely on the basis of merit (the accomplished work results) through consistently abiding by the Law on Civil Servants;

9. To introduce professional standards of work, as well as criteria for accountability and responsibility of the civil servants;

10. To consistently apply the system of reward and punishment of the civil servants;

11. To introduce elements of a career system so that for filling the higher work positions internal announcements shall be conducted within the institutions in order to maximize the effects from the work experience and knowledge of the public administration;

12. To adopt system measures directed towards narrowing the room for making biased decisions in the public administration;

13. Wherever feasible to introduce a so called e – administration, i.e. automatic completion of the public administration services;

14. To make provisions for accountability of the commission’s members who decide on the requests for denationalization unless they respond to the requests in the shortest time frame possible;

15. To make the denationalization commissions professional;

16. To include as members of commissions which decide arbitrarily on various issues (denationalization, assessment of work ability, etc.) external experts from the area of the commission’s decision – making;

17. To introduce unannounced control and check – ups of the reached decisions from various commissions;

18. To introduce criminal sanctions even for so – called “minor corruption”;

19. To harmonize and standardize the procedures for all the services provided by the public administration on both national and local level;

20. To make the forms uniform and harmonize the necessary documentation for supplying the services to the citizens in all municipalities across the country;

21. To define criteria for obtaining various permits;

22. To announce publicly in every state institution the required documents for a certain service, the criteria for obtaining the service, the people in charge of every act and the deadlines for obtaining the service;

23. To introduce a front and rear office in all places where permits are issued and similar services to the citizens;

24. To make the pay toll automatic.