E-declarations registry

Until 2014, anticorruption legislation provided that public officials’ asset declarations could be filled in paper form only and then submitted to public bodies. Only the declarations of management of certain state institutions were published on their websites. Sanctioning for failure to submit a declaration or indication of false information was soft (disciplinary sanctions or small administrative fine). Not all of the property owned by an official had to be declared, and even this was not always observed. There was an urgent need for greater transparency in asset declaration, so as to strengthen control over public officials’ wealth. This is how the concept of electronic declarations evolved. The concept included the creation of a separate freely-accessible online portal, which would store officials’ asset declarations.

National Agency on Corruption Prevention does not have full control of software and hardware of the registry.