Prevention and Fight against Corruption: A Delegation of Croatia’s Ministry of Justice Visits Rome

The six officials from Croatia’s Ministry of Justice conducted the study visit to Rome from 7 to 11 November 2011. The activity took place under the Twinning project “Strengthening the Anti-corruption Inter-agency Cooperation – Management Support of the Ministry of Justice Anti-corruption Sector” managed by Formez and SAeT, in partnership with France. 
Many are the structures – both public and private – who in the name of the logic of “mutual learning”, at the basis of this particular type of projects, hosted the Croatian delegation and outlined the actions aimed at preventing and repressing the phenomena of corruption in the respective fields of relevance, among which the Supervisory Authority of Public Procurement, the Italian Committee for the Repression of Community Frauds, the Antimafia Investigation Department and Italy’s Ministry of Justice. Particular attention was dedicated to large companies like ENI and SIEMENS who during the visit, presented the relative programmes on transparency and supervision and the international initiatives adopted after agreeing to the United Nations Global Compact and to the main agreements of merit.
The week opened with a visit to Formez during which Giorgio Sarti, Andrea Panichelli and Giancarlo Boccacci from the Office Internal Audit , in the presence of FormezPA General Manager, Professor Marco Villani, outlined the methods of acknowledging Legislative Decree N° 231 of 2001 ruling the “administrative” responsibility of the authorities for offences committed by those who play a role of representation, administration or management. In particular, the methods of adopting and implementing the organizational model for management and control were analysed in depth. 
The participants had the chance of knowing in detail the Brunetta Reforms and its provisions about transparency in public administrations owing to the meeting organized by Colonel Maurizio Bortoletti, the Project leader of Italian part to the Anti-corruption and Transparency Service of the Italian Department for Public Administration. In 2013 Croatia will become the twenty-eighth European Union country and its membership was preceded by six negotiations, during which the Government of Zagreb committed to satisfying 127 different criteria established by the EU for entering. Among these approaches emerged the enhancement of the national legislation in the field of prevention and the fight against corruption, which placed it at the bottom of European statistics.