Грађанскоправна конвенција о корупцији и Закон о заштити узбуњивача Републике Србије
Civil Law Convention on Corruption and the Law on the Protection of Whistleblowers of the Republic of Serbia

Summary/Abstract: By the Law on Ratification of the United Nations’ Convention against corruption and the Law on validation of the Civic-legal convention on corruption, the Republic of Serbia has made a commitment to arrange the issue of the protection of those who report the suspected corruption and other illegal conduct, comprehensively and by law. According to the Article 9 of the Civic-Legal convention on corruption, each contracting party should provide, in the domestic law, appropriate protection from any unjustified sanction against the employees, who have justified reason to suspect corruption and who, in good faith, report their suspicions to responsible persons or bodies. The National Strategy for combating against corruption in the Republic of Serbia for the period from year 2013 until 2018 and the accompanying Action Plan foresee, as one of the goals, the establishing of efficient and beneficial protection of whistleblowers who report suspicion of corruption. By passing the Law on Protection of Whistle-blowers, the Republic of Serbia has taken the necessary steps towards the establishing of the normative framework and capacity for determined combat against corruption and at the same times it realizes the obligations undertaken from the international acts, and above all the recommendations of the Group of states for the combat against corruption of the Council of Europe (GRECO).

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