Pursuant to Article 24 of the Law on State Administration (Official Gazette of the RoM 38/03 and Official Gazette of Montenegro 22/08 and 42/11), the Government of Montenegro, on its session held on 29 December 2011, adopted the

DECREE

ON ORGANISATION AND MANNER OF OPERATION OF THE STATE ADMINISTRATION

(“Official Gazette of Montenegro“, No. 05/12, January 23, 2012)

Article 4

State administration bodies within the Ministry of Justice are Directorate for Anti-Corruption Initiative and Institute for Execution of Criminal Sanctions.

The Directorate for Anti-Corruption Initiative performs its duties referring to the:  promotional and preventive activity such as the increasing of the level of public awareness of corruption problems and conducting the research on scope, forms, causes, and mechanisms of corruption; cooperation with relevant state bodies aimed at drafting and implementing of the legislative and programmatic documents that are important for prevention and combating corruption; cooperation with non-governmental organizations and private sector towards combating corruption; cooperation with state bodies related to the corruption reports that Directorate receives from the citizens and other subjects; proposing to Government the adoption and implementation of European and other anti-corruption international standards and instruments; monitoring the implementation of recommendations of GRECO (Group of States of the Council of Europe against corruption); the coordination of activities that arise from the applying of UN Convention against corruption; collection of corruption complaints data from the institutions receiving corruption complaints and providing for analytical processing of those data; performing other activities that arise from the membership in Stability Pact for the South-Eastern Europe and other international organizations and institutions, and, other activities delegated to its competence.