How is Georgia implementing the CoE’s anti-corruption recommendations?
The report says that Georgia fully implemented seven of the 18 recommendations issued by GRECO. Photo: emerging Europe.
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The Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO has published its annual report for 2019 earlier today on how CoE member states (as well as Belarus, Kazakhstan and the US) are preventing corruption among MPs, judges and prosecutors.
The report says that as of December 31, 2019, Georgia had fully implemented seven of the 18 recommendations issued by GRECO (39%).
Photo: CoE.
Eight recommendations had been implemented partially (17%) and three recommendations had not been implemented (44%).
The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) is a Council of Europe body that aims to improve the capacity of its members to fight corruption by monitoring their compliance with anti-corruption standards, the CoE states.
Photo: CoE.
It helps the countries to identify deficiencies in national anti-corruption policies, prompting the necessary legislative, institutional and practical reforms.
Currently it comprises the 47 Council of Europe member states, Belarus, Kazakhstan and the United States of America.
Transparency International has released its Corruption Perceptions Index 2019, with Georgia ranking 44th among 180 countries and territories across the world, standing on top of all Eastern European and Central Asian countries.In the index, which measures sector corruption according to experts and business people, Georgia has received 56 scores of total 100.
Local NGO Transparency International Georgia (TI) says that dealing with various forms of corruption remains major challenge for Georgia.
Georgia has cemented its position as one of anti-corruption leaders among Eastern European and Central Asian countries, according to Transparency International’s (TI) recently-published 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Georgia ranks 46th out of 180 countries, ahead of Eastern Partnership nations.
The Government of Georgia has adopted an 2017-2018 anti-corruption strategy which is focused on prevention and higher level transparency in state institutions.
Only three of 12 key institutions in Georgia have been highly assessed by TI in a report on facilitating democratic governance and preventing corruption in Georgia, reads the National Integrity System (NIS) assessment published by Transparency International Georgia, which covers the period between 2015 and 2020.
The business environment in Georgia is much more favorable than in many other countries, said World Bank Regional Director for the South Caucasus Sebastian Molineus commenting on the result Georgia attained in the World Bank Enterprise Survey, in which Georgia ranked in the top 10 countries in terms of low bribery prevalence.
The World Bank has published a new Enterprise Surveys in which over 164,000 of companies from 144 countries were involved and Georgia was ranked in the top 10 countries in terms of low bribery prevalence. In Georgia, bribery incidence, which is the percent of firms experiencing at least one bribe payment request, amounted to 1.3 per cent, while this indicator reaches 10 per cent.