A legislative initiative approved by the Government provides that each public servant will no longer be tested apart. There will be tested the institution and emphasis will be placed on institutional integrity. Also, the responsibility for identifying cases of corruption will be borne first of all by the institution, given that the institution’s administration must manage affairs so that the employees are not tempted to take bribe, IPN reports, quoting the bill.
To perform the integrity testing, the court will issue an authorization and will then assess the test from juridical viewpoint. The professional integrity test given to public servants will be aimed not at penalizing the lack of professional integrity, but rather at identifying the deficiencies of the institutional integrity climate at the public entity, for which its administration is responsible.
The results of the institutional integrity assessment will be included in an evaluation report. The administration will have to adopt an integrity plan within a month. Afterward, the National Anticorruption Center and the Security and Intelligence Service will repeatedly assess the institution. If the managers refuse to adopt the integrity plan or to implement it, the two institutions can seek their dismissal.
In April, the Constitutional Court ruled that the law on the testing of the professional integrity of public servants is constitutional, but noted that some of the provisions leave room for interpretation and should be reviewed.
