Strengthen the role of law by changing the institutional framework for combating corruption

Slamkov, Gorgi (2021) Strengthen the role of law by changing the institutional framework for combating corruption. Journal of Sustainable Development, 11 (27). pp. 87-104. ISSN 1857-8519

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Abstract

Numerous surveys and rankings of international organizations on corruption
issues show that North Macedonia has serious problems in combating corruption and
therefore a substantial approach is needed to improve the situation.
That is the point of this paper - taking essential steps in the fight against
corruption. The focus is on the change in the institutional approach in the fight against
corruption, ie replacement of the current preventive model (where the leading
institution is the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption - SCPC) and
replacement with the model of law enforcement agencies, ie in the future leading
institution in North Macedonia to be the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office for
Prosecution of Organized Crime and Corruption.
The paper emphasizes that by changing the main body for fight against
corruption, the SCPC will be transformed into a Commission for Prevention of Conflict
of Interest. In that way, the current body will continue to work but with competencies
of educational, preventive and administrative character, because even today that body
has no operational competencies.
In the paper the author points out that to achieve a significant result in the fight
against corruption, substantial changes are needed in the composition and operation
of the Judicial Council, the Council of Public Prosecutors and the Steering Committee
of the Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors. These are the key institutions in the
judiciary and it is necessary to increase transparency and accountability in their work,
and especially in their composition.
Throughout the paper, special emphasis is placed on gender representation on
an equal basis in order to jointly improve the situation in the fight against corruption,
from which everyone suffers.
In the paper, the author creates a strategic approach to reducing the high level
of corruption in North Macedonia, by offering several recommendations that in the
medium and long term should improve the situation in the suppression of corruption.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Social Sciences > Law
Divisions:	Faculty of Law
Depositing User:	Gorgi Slamkov
Date Deposited:	02 Jan 2025 08:29
Last Modified:	02 Jan 2025 08:29
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/35330

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