Preliminary assessment of the first payment request of Romania

These measures would help enhance the functioning of the DNA (National Anti-Corruption Directorate), the European Public Prosecutor Office support structure, the Technical Service and the reinforcement of judicial police officers, as required by the CID Annex.

   To promote the unification and judicial practice in corruption, the DNA will conduct an analysis
    of judicial practice concerning corruption cases especially in public procurement (SO 4.4,
    Measure 1), while ordinary appeals and appeals in the interest of the law will be promoted in
    order to step up efforts to unify judicial practice with respect to corruption cases (SO 5.1,
    Measure 7).

   As required by the CID Annex, the new Strategy sets out as new priority area environmental
    corruption (page 21 and SO 4.8, as discussed above) and the integrity in the protection of
    cultural assets (pg. 23 and SO 4.9). The Strategy moreover addresses the link between
    corruption and organised crime (SO 5.3), as it acknowledges corruption as one of the means
    that sustain the activities of organised crime groups and entrench their power. Measures to
    achieve this objective include the production of a taxonomy of judicial practices on corruption
    cases associated with organised crime, and the reinforcement of the protection of judicial staff
    involved in the prevention and fight against corruption and organised crime (pg. 42).

   The strategy moreover reviews the integrity legislation (Section C.2, pg. 10-11) and sets out
    measures to improve legislation concerning:
       o Conflicts of interests and incompatibilities, especially in the health sector (SO 4.1,
            Measure 6), education sector (SO 4.2, Measure 6) and the management of cultural
            heritage (SO 4.9, Measure 2)
       o Declaration of assets and gifts, especially in the public sector (SO 5.2, Measure 3)
       o Revolving door (pantouflage), especially to avoid conflicts of interests between
            providers of anti-corruption training and the examiners that shall award
            licensing/accreditation/certification mechanisms for that training (SO 4.2, Measure 5)
       o The status and mandate of Ethics Adviser, in order to make anti-corruption preventive
            measures more effective (SO 3.1, Measure 1).

The uniform application of the general standard of disclosure of public interest information ex officio at the level of central and local public authorities (SO 3.2, Measures 1 and 2). Moreover, Annex 4 includes a General Standard for Disclosure of Public Interest Disclosures that central and local public authorities will have to fill into report, among others, information about their budget and all financial sources and, in the case of contracting authorities, annual public procurement programmes, a summary of procured contracts (for contracts worth less than EUR 5,000) or public contracts (in all the other cases). Commission Preliminary Assessment: Satisfactorily fulfilled

Number: 450        Related Measure: Monitoring and implementation of the plan

Name of the Milestone: Audit and Controls: information for monitoring implementation of the recovery and resilience plan

Qualitative Indicator: Audit report confirming repository system Time: Q4/2021 functionalities

Context

The objective of the overall investment is to set up and operationalise the integrated IT system, part

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