Corruption Prevention Commission of the Republic of Armenia

Haykuhi Harutyunyan, the Chairwoman of the Commission, Lilith Aleksanyan and Mariam Galstyan, members of the Commission, discussed with Bertrand Venard the possible directions of further cooperation between French University and the Commission.

The expert introduced the management of the training cycle and the methods of designing questionnaires to the staff of the Education, Public Awareness programs, and Monitoring Department, as well as to the Chief Methodologist of the CPC.

"Currently, there are 115 registered parties in Armenia, some of which are not active. I think this process will lead to the dissolution of inactive parties after some time," said Aramayis Pashinyan.

“More than 7,000 declarations are being checked, which is a rather detailed process. The studies are carried out exclusively by the Commission. In all cases when the Commission concludes that there are certain inconsistencies in the property, income, interests, expenses, the property actually used by the person, the Commission initiates administrative (at the same time disciplinary proceedings) and sends the materials to the Supreme Judicial Council for a decision.”

Before getting acquainted with the main functions of the Commission, the students walked around the offices and got acquainted with the working conditions of the structural subdivisions and the process of organizing the work.

“Studies show that over the past 30 years the civil society has taken on the main burden of the implementing anti-corruption education programs in the Republic of Armenia," said Sasun Hambardzumyan.

17 consultants from the RA regional administrations and enlarged communities, RA Police regional departments, RA Ministry of Finance took part in the discussion entitled "Declaration process".

According to the regulation defined by the law during the first quarter of each year the Commission shall submit a report on its previous year’s activities to the National Assembly.

The participants of the discussion asked questions about the content of the draft decision, in particular, the composition of the tender commission, the amount to be paid to the audit organizations, the conditions presented to them, as well as a number of technical issues related to the preparation and submission of financial reports of the parties.

She noted that equal opportunities are important for democratization and in the fight against corruption, adding that in her case it is a matter of principle.

The analysis of the current situation in Armenia shows that citizens very often are not aware of the anti-corruption reforms that have been carried out, and as a result they do not use them, which in its turn leads to the reduction in the efficiency of the steps taken so far.

The participants of the discussion were introduced the draft developed by the Commission, in particular, procedure for selection of audit organizations for the purpose of mandatory audit of parties, their requirements, the selection of winning companies, the procedure for drawing lots, the criteria for evaluating technical proposals and other details about the process.