The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine established the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) as a central government executive authority with a special status. The activities of the National Agency have five focuses:
1.Anti-corruption policy
The NACPoversees the formation and implementation of state anti-corruption policy:
- Forming and implementing an anti-corruption strategy;
- Conducting esearch on the current state of corruption;
- Carrying out awareness campaigns to strengthen the fight against corruption in a whole-of-society approach;
- Calling upon anti-corruption expertise.
2.Declarations:
- Checking electronic disclosures in order to ensure the transfer of financial control over the property status of public officials and to ensure the establishment and operation of the Unified Register of electronic declarations;
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- Ensuring open access to property records data;
- Drawing upprotocols on administrative violations of the requirements of financial control;
3.Conflicts of interest:
- Settling and preventing conflicts of interest;
- Monitoring compliance with legislative restrictions on receiving gifts and secondary activities;
- Drawing up protocols on administrative violations in this domain;
- Advising on improvements for legislation on in this domain.
4.Prevention of political corruption:
- Exercisingstate control over the observance of statutory restrictions on financing of political parties and political parties’ targeted use of funds allocated from the State Budget of Ukraine to finance their charter activities; verifying the following: declarations on assets, revenues, expenses and financial obligations of parties; reports on the receipt and use of election funds for national and local election;, the completeness of such reports;reports of the external independent financial audit of the parties’ activities;
- Making publically transparent thefunding of political parties;
- Drawing upprotocols on administrative violations in this area;
5.Prevention of corruption and collaboration with whistle-blowers:
- Cooperating with and protecting whistle-blowers of corruption;
- Participating in anti-corruption programs of government agencies and typical anti-corruption programs of legal entities;
- Analyzing risks of corruption;
- Monitorstate government bodies on corruption prevention.