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Combating Corruption in Procurement

Macedonia - 2017 Aleksandar Argirovski

How is corruption measured

• Complex issue without an exact answer
• Perception of corruption vs. corruption

What can be done?

• Policy measures
• Preventive and repressive measures
• Control measures
• Remedies
• Partnership among government, business and

civil society

Policy measures – key issues:

• What thresholds should be used?
• What control mechanisms to be introduced?
• Should the market be opened for foreign

companies?

• How to strengthen confidence in the

procurement system?

Preventive measures - PPB

• Tools for increasing transparency and

competition

• Increasing human capacity at contracting

authorities and economic operators

• Strengthening the overall confidence in the

procurement system

Tools PPB uses to increase transparency

• Using e-procurement:

– to facilitate access to tendering opportunity thus increasing competition – to make public information about winners – to enable civil society and the general public more aware about what’s going on

Efforts PPB undertakes to increase human capacity

• Mandatory certification of procurement
• fficers
• Production of high-quality manuals,

especially for e-procurement

• Other capacity building activities in

cooperation with business associations etc.

Repressive (penal) measures

• PPB has no repressive authority
• Number of criminal offences stipulated in the

Law – do not seem to work

• Follow up on State Audit reports – do not

seem to work

• Key issue is the capacity of law enforcement

and prosecutors to prosecute procurement related crime

Control measures

• Using e-procurement tools for automatic

control of contract notices and reporting

• bligations
• Notices of procedural irregularities
• Ex-ante control of tender documents – Public

Procurement Council

Remedies – State Appeals Commission

• Our remedies system is largely in line with

the EU Remedies Directives

• State Appeals Commission is independent

body responsible to the Parliament

• Number of appeals is decreasing

Government, NGO, businesses partnership

• Deficit in confidence culture of dialogue

between government and civil society seems to be present everywhere in our countries

• What can we do to fix this?

– Improve the legislative process

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