Government’s Working Programme Monitoring Gains Momentum

Skopje, [Date]

The implementation of the Government’s Working Programme for justice, home affairs, and fundamental rights has reached a new level of efficiency. The sectoral activities supported by IPA assistance are being closely monitored at both project and programme levels.

Sectoral Activities in Focus

• Line institutions such as:
  • Ministry of Justice
  • State Commission for Prevention of Corruption
  • Agency for Managing Confiscated Property and Property Gains
  • Others

Ministry of Justice

The Ministry of Justice is responsible for ensuring the rule of law and better access to justice by:

• Preparing, implementing, and monitoring legal and institutional capacities related to:
  • Judiciary
  • Anticorruption
  • Criminal justice
  • Civil justice
  • Administrative justice
  • Legal aid
  • International legal assistance
  • Human rights
  • IT in the judiciary

State Commission for Prevention of Corruption

The State Commission for Prevention of Corruption has established a protocol for cooperation with 17 institutions aimed at:

• Preventing corruption and conflict of interests
• Applying determined anticorruption measures and activities to prevent corruption in:
  • Public authorities
  • Official obligations
  • Politics

Ministry of Internal Affairs

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is responsible for ensuring:

• Public safety
• Prevention of violent destruction of democratic institutions
• Protection of life, personal safety, and property of citizens
• Prevention of outbursts of national, racial, and religious hatred and intolerance

Public Prosecutor’s Office

The Public Prosecutor’s Office is a sole and autonomous state authority responsible for:

• Prosecuting perpetrators of criminal and other punishable acts as determined by law
• Jurisdiction over the entire territory of the country
• Established an Investigating Centre within its Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution of Organised Crime and Corruption in Skopje

Financial Police Office

The Financial Police Office has competence to:

• Implement financial controls
• Monitor implementation of tax, customs, and other regulations concerning finance
• Collect and analyze data on cash transactions
• Take investigations and other measures when there is reasonable suspicion of criminal acts of organized financial crime
• Follow the money trail of offences by law
• Discover and document crime acts, primarily in the area of organized financial crimes

Sector Plan Expectations

The sector plan is expected to support the development and consolidation of a sector monitoring system, establishing clear and appropriate relationships between:

• Policies
• Strategies
• Targets
• Indicators