Directorate for Anti-Corruption Initiative and Human Resources Management Authority organised a workshop in Podgorica on preparation of integrity plans for institutions which will be obliged for future preparation of this document.

Director of the Directorate for Anti-Corruption Initiative, Vesna Ratkovic, PhD, introduced the participants to the importance of the principle of integrity in combating corruption. She pointed out the importance of ethical, professional and responsible behavior of employees. She reminded that several state bodies have already adopted their integrity plans and noted that the obligation of adopting integrity plans in the public sector is defined in the new Law on Civil Servants and State Employees.

Mr. Becir Kecanovic, representative of the Commission for Prevention of Corruption in Slovenia, familiarized the attendants with Slovenian experiences in implementation of integrity plans and stressed the importance of adopting integrity plans for prevention of corruption. In addition, Mr. Kecanovic gave attendants the guidelines for preparation of integrity plans.

Ms. Grozdana Lakovic, Senior Advisor in the Directorate for Anti-Corruption Initiative, described the ways in which the Strategy and Innovated Action Plan for fighting corruption and organised crime, as well as the Corruption Risk Assessment in Special Risk Areas, identify risks in the field of urbanism, which can serve as a solid basis for preparing the integrity plan of the line ministry.

Within the workshop, the participants were presented with an example of identification of corruption risk in a specific working process - issuance of building permits, based on the inputs of the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism, the ministry responsible for urban issues.

DACI’s informational materials were distributed to the participants.