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BULGARIA ENGAGES IN STRICT ANTI-CRIME MEASURES

Mon, Jun 05 2006 14:34 CET

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Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin said that the action plan the Bulgarian government would present on June 6 to the European Commission (EC) would include a series of anti-corruption measures.

The action plan is an initiative of the Bulgarian government to speed up the reforms as a result of the criticism of the May 16 EC report on the country's readiness to join the EU.

The Cabinet considered creating a special unit to fight high-level corruption, mediapool.bg reported. According to plans, the unit will follow the Romanian model and will include 30 to 40 young experts chosen by the National Assembly.

As part of the anti-corruption measures, the Bulgarian National Audit Office (BNAO) will inspect the data in the income declarations of politicians and magistrates. The government will impose new sanctions for those who failed to declare their income and property.

The action plan proposes a mechanism for guaranteeing transparency in the ways political parties receive their financing.

Kalfin said that only part of the propositions in the action plan would be executed as it had to be negotiated between the European Integration Minister Meglena Kouneva and the EC. Whatever the result of the discussions, Bulgaria would work hard to eliminate the problems in the critical areas, Kalfin said.

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