KORUPTIVNA KAZNENA DJELA U JAVNOJ NABAVI
CORRUPTIVE CRIMINAL OFFENSES IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Summary/Abstract: Corruption is a global and negative phenomenon that is difficult to define unambiguously due to its complexity, various manifestations, covertness and social harm. It can be found in countries throughout the world, and by violating both legal and moral norms, it erodes all the segments of society to the same extent thus threatening the stability of each country. Corruption has a negative effect on the stability of the country’s economic, financial and legal system. Public procurement of goods, works and services for the purposes of functioning of public contracting authorities that are in charge of the implementation of public procurement in the Republic of Croatia is connected with the circulation of a large amount of public money, i.e. taxpayers' money. Free market competition and public money make this segment of the state economy extremely susceptible to corruption offences. This is exactly why various forms of criminal behavior occur in the field of public procurement, both by representatives of public contracting authorities and representatives of economic operators that participate in public procurement procedures. The fundamental prerequisite for combating corruption in public procurement or at least reducing it to a minimum, which is also a prerequisite for the protection of public money, is a clear and unambiguous legislative and efficient institutional public procurement framework. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the conceptual clarification of corruption, to point to its forms and types, to explain the connection between corruption and organized crime, to highlight the negative effects of corruption in public procurement and to point to possible sanctioning of corruption offences in public procurement

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