A binding ethical codex for public officers is adopted and is effectively enforced. Officers are held liable for illegal decisions made and the damage arising.
If there was a code of good administrative behaviour for state officials and state officials were effectively held responsible for illegal acts, a pressure on higher quality of public service would be created as well as it would provide means for refusing to perform corruption oriented tasks ordered by politicians.
Sources:
- Art. 8 (1), (2), (3) of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, 14 December 2005
- Annex to the UN General Assembly resolution 51/59 containing International Code of Conduct for Public Officials, 12 December 1996
- OECD: Recommendation on Improving Ethical Conduct in the Public Service including Principles for Managing Ethics in the Public Service, 1998
- Transparency International: Curbing Corruption in Public Procurement, A Practical Guide, 2014, p. 14
- Transparency International: Corruption risks in the Visegrad Countries – Visegrad Integrity System Study, 2012, p. 27
- Professionalisation of the state administration and the Civil Servants Act, Policy paper of Transparency International - Czech Republic, Prague, June 2012, p. 29
- Černý, P., Klanicová, K.: Klientelistický nebo právní stát? Ekologický právní servis, Praha, 2010, p. 25 - 27
- Vondráček, O., Havrda, M., 21 recipes – Anti-corruption cookbook, Recipe 9: Integrity and professionalism of public administration, December 2013
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