Corruption Prevention Commission of the Republic of Armenia

Within the Second Public Sector Modernization Project for Armenia, the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials of Armenia made a visit to Lithuania and Latvia from November 16-21, 2014 to study the corruption prevention system of Lithuania and Latvia, regulatory processes related to asset and conflict of interest declarations, ethics rules and conflict of interest, their enforcement.  The Armenian delegation included Siranush Sahakyan, the Chairperson of the Commission on...

The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials and German DBB Academy have organized a training of trainers of public sector ethics with support of the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ) from October 15-17, 2014 in Armenia Marriott Hotel. This initiative is the continuation of the previous training of trainers, during which representatives from National Assembly of Armenia, Civil Service Council, Board of Ethics and Discipline of General Assembly of Judges of...

The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials and German DBB Academy organize a training of trainers of public sector ethics with support of the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ) from September 24-26, 2014 in Armenia Marriott Hotel. The aim of this event is training of trainers through transferring them skills of conducting an interactive and participatory ethics training as well as knowledge on the training methodology and content. With the help of the...

The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials participated in the workshop conducted within the framework of SIGMA program (a joint initiative of European Union and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) on drafting a Code of Conduct for high-ranking officials from August 16th to 19th, 2014, in Aghveran. The event was also attended by Alessandro Zanotta, representative of the Delegation of European Union to Armenia, Xavier Sisternas senior adviser of legal framework and...

The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials, among other state institutions of Armenia, participated in the discussions on the third round of monitoring of the anti-corruption action plan for Armenia organized by the OECD Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia in Yerevan from July 21-24, 2014. OECD Anti-Corruption Network Delegation was represented by Olga Savran, the head of the Anti-Corruption Network and Tanya Khavanska, the head of the project of the...

With this clarification the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials informs that, according to the Articles 34 and 35 of the Law on Public Service of Armenia, the following information on provided or received borrowings by the declarant shall be reflected in the declarations submitted to the Ethics Commission by the high-ranking officials and their related persons (including his/her spouse, the parents living together with the high-ranking official, adult and single children living...

The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials had a meeting with the delegation of World Bank led by Migara De Silva and David Melikyan. Initiatives introduced by the Ethics Commission with the support of the World Bank, the obstacles related to their implementation and opportunities of increasing their efficiency were discussed at the meeting. Meanwhile, the Ethics Commission presented the possible directions and tools for further cooperation with the World Bank based on the...

The deputy chairperson of the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials Areg Shushyan and members Lilit Petrosyan and Armen Khudaverdyan had a meeting with the Council of Europe delegation represented by Lorena Bachmaier, Lilit Daneghyan- Bossler and Narine Gasparyan at the office of the Ethics Commission on June 25, 2014. The meeting was aimed to discuss the role of the Ethics Commission in the process of judicial reforms as well as the opportunities for the participation of the Ethics...

Artak Sargsyan, the member of the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials of Armenia participated in “Prevention of corruption; trends and best practices in Eastern Europe and Central Asia” regional seminar from June 26-27, 2014, in Tirana, Albania. The event was organized by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), UNDP...

 The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials, by its decision N12-A dated on April 25, 2014, instituted a proceeding to discuss the alleged violations of ethics rules by Aram Harutyunyan, the Minister of Nature Protection. As a result of the instituted proceeding, the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Official has adopted the following conclusion. (The decision text is available in Armenian)

The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials discussed the application of Sona Ayvazyan, deputy director of Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center of Armenia, on the alleged violations of the ethics rules by Aram Harutyunyan, the Minister of Nature Protection of Armenia. By its decision N12 dated on April 25, 2014, The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials instituted a proceeding on its own initiative. (The decision text is available in Armenian)

Within the framework of “Good Governance and Fight against Corruption” project of Eastern Partnership and Council of Europe, a regional seminar on asset declaration analysis was organized from May 28-29, 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey, that aimed at exchanging the current methods, information and experience on declaration analysis and declaration data verification between 27 participants from 6 Eastern Partnership countries. (see the seminar report)