Corruption Prevention Commission of the Republic of Armenia

 Lilit Petrosyan, the member of the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials, participated in the 8th meeting of the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group to implement the United Nations Convention against Corruption within the period of August 21-23 of 2017, in Vienna, Austria, during which the international best experience and initiatives on corruption prevention in different countries’ education systems and in criminal justice institutions were discussed. The...

 The HO-98-N Republic of Armenia Law on “Making Amendments and Supplements to the RA Law on Public Service” entered into force on July 1 of 2017, by which the scope of the declarant high-ranking officials was enlarged. The declarant high-ranking officials (except for the high-ranking officials currently exercising their official responsibilities) are obliged to submit asset, income and related persons declarations as of July 1 of 2017 to the Commission on Ethics of...

The Republic of Armenia Law on “Making Amendments and Supplements to the Republic of Armenia Law on Public Service” adopted by the National Assembly entered into force on July 1 of 2017, by which grounds for the institutional independence of the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Official, improvements of the declaration regulations, effective implementation of the Commission’s function for declaration analysis were established. Under the mentioned Law, the Commission...

The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials has elaborated a draft Government decree to further develop its verification tools of the data reflected in the declarations of high-ranking officials and their related persons and submitted to the RA Government on November 16, 2016. The draft decree is to ensure the transfer of personal data to the Commission via the electronic database systems of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of...

    On November 16 of 2016, the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials submitted recommendations to the RA Government on asset declaration legislation amendments, as well as vesting the Commission with the role of ethics coordinator as foreseen in the precondition of EU Budget Support Financial Agreement. The recommendations vesting the Commission with the role of ethics coordinator include elaboration and implementation of guiding ethics provisions, adoption of a...

The asset declaration system development and reforms are one of the activity priorities of the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials and the Commission submitted recommendations to the RA Government on November 11, 2016 that foresees the expansion of the scope of public officials who are obliged to submit declarations to the Commission. Particularly, recommendations intended to stipulate a declaration submission obligation for all the prosecutors, the highest public service...

The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials, together with the Armenian Office of the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ), organizes a workshop on “The Enforcement Characteristics of the Public Ethics Norms in Prosecutorial and Judicial Systems”, which will take place on October 1-2, 2016 at Best Western Paradise Hotel in Dilijan. The aim of the event is to discuss both the issues of the enforcement of public ethics norms applicable to...

On June 3, 2016 a workshop on “Coordination of Ethics Practice and Implementation of Norms” organized by the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials and the Armenian Office of the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ) was held, which was attended by Armenia’s high-ranking officials, ethics commission officials of state agencies and the public institution representatives in charge of ethics issues. Valts Kalniņš, internationally known...

The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials, together with the Armenian Office of the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ), organizes a workshop on “Coordination of Ethics Practice and Implementation of Norms”, which will take place on June 3, 2016 in Armenia Marriott Hotel Yerevan. The goal of the event is the discussion of international best practice of ethics rules’ promotion and enforcement, as well as the possibilities of their...

On May 12, 2016, the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials hosted Alan Meale and Giuseppe Galati, the PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) Monitoring Committee’s co-rapporteurs on Armenia, as well as the Secretary of PACE Bas Klein. The issues of promotion of high-ranking officials’ ethical conduct and effective management of conflict of interest situations were discussed during the meeting. The Ethics Commission presented its actions and the...

In response to the oral request of Liberty radio station on the status of the application of Transparency International on instituting a proceeding against Mihran Poghosyan the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials inform: After the publications of the Panama offshore transactions related materials, information was spread in the media that those facts were being investigated by the law enforcement agencies. Yesterday, precise information was spread, with reference to...

In response to numerous media requests regarding the issue, whether the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials is investigating the information published on “Panama Papers” about the head of Compulsory Enforcement Service Mihran Poghosyan, the Commission informs: The media publications on high-ranking officials’ activity limitations, set by the Law on Public Service, including alleged violations of conflict of interest are always at the center of attention...