Fourth evaluation round – Corruption prevention in respect of members of parliament, judges and prosecutors. Second compliance report Serbia adopted by GRECO at its 86th Plenary Meeting in Strasbourg, 26-29 October 2020.
This Second Compliance Report assesses the measures taken by the authorities of Serbia to implement the pending recommendations issued in the Fourth Round Evaluation Report on Serbia (see paragraph 2) covering “Corruption prevention in respect of members of parliament, judges and prosecutors”.
The Fourth Evaluation Round Report on Serbia was adopted by GRECO at its 68th Plenary Meeting (19 June 2015) and made public on 2 July 2015, following authorisation by Serbia.
In the first Compliance Report, adopted at GRECO’s 77th Plenary Meeting (20 October 2017) and made public on 15 March 2018, following authorisation by Serbia, it was concluded that Serbia had not implemented satisfactorily or dealt with in a satisfactory manner any of the 13 recommendations contained in the Fourth Round Evaluation Report. GRECO concluded that the very low level of compliance with the recommendations was “globally unsatisfactory” within the meaning of Rule 31, paragraph 8.3 of its Rules of Procedure. It therefore decided to apply Rule 32, paragraph 2.i) in respect of members not in compliance with the recommendations contained in the mutual evaluation report.
An Interim Compliance Report was adopted at GRECO’s 82nd Plenary Meeting (22 March 2019) and made public on 2nd April 2019, following authorisation by Serbia. It concluded that, even though none of the recommendations had been implemented satisfactorily, the overall level of compliance with the recommendations was no longer “globally unsatisfactory” within the meaning of Rule 31 revised, paragraph 8.3 of the Rules of Procedure. GRECO encouraged the Serbian authorities to further pursue their efforts to implement GRECO’s recommendations and invited the Head of delegation of Serbia to submit additional information regarding the implementation of recommendations i to xiii by 31 December 2019.
On 31 December 2019, the Serbian authorities submitted information regarding the actions taken to implement the pending recommendations, which, together with information submitted subsequently, served as a basis for the current Report, drawn up by the rapporteurs, Mr Jens-Oscar NERGARD, on behalf of Norway and Ms Alicja KLAMCZYNSKA, on behalf of Poland, with the assistance of GRECO’s Secretariat.
This Second Compliance Report assesses the implementation of the 13 recommendations since the adoption of the Interim Compliance Report and provides an overall assessment of Serbia’s level of compliance with these recommendations.
You can read and download the report below:
(EN) GrecoRC420203-FINAL-EN-Serbia-2ndRC4 .pdf628.25 KB
(RS) GrecoRC420203-FINAL-RS-Serbia-2ndRC4(*) .pdf783.97 KB (*) unofficial translation, as provided by the authorities of Serbia
Source: COE.int