Skopje, 30 December 2025 (MIA) - Sixty officials, including ten judges, ten public prosecutors, ten MPs, ten ministers, ten mayors and ten former mayors who concluded their terms in 2025 will be covered in the 2026 Annual Plan for Monitoring Assets and Conflicts of Interest of the State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption (SCPC), and their names will be announced next month.

The SCPC at its 26th session on Tuesday adopted its 2026 Annual Plan for Monitoring Assets and Conflicts of Interest, and its head Adem Chuchulj said the SCPC followed the European Commission's recommendations and decided to step up the number of officials that will be covered in the plan.

Chuchulj noted that in accordance with Article 19 of the Law on Prevention of Corruption and Conflict of Interest, the anti-corruption commission in the last three months of the current year adopts an annual plan for the following year, based on an assessment of the risk of corruption, and taking into account analyses within the National Strategy. 

He pointed out that the anti-corruption commission also takes into account the annual plans from previous years, i.e. the situation in the areas considered most susceptible to corruption including the judiciary, the legislative branch, the executive branch and local self-government.

"Given the European Commission's recommendations to strengthen the monitoring of assets, the SCPC intends to step up the number of officials covered in this monitoring of assets and conflict of interest to 60," said Chuchulj.

In addition, the SCPC adopted Tuesday its 2026 Work Program. According to SCPC head Adem Chuchulj, the program incorporates the Commission's strategic commitments as well as the European Commission's recommendations, GRECO's recommendations, the measures and activities from the National Strategy for the Prevention of Corruption and Conflict of Interest 2021-2025, and the National Strategy 2026-2030.

The anti-corruption commission members on Tuesday also approved, among other, the 2026 Annual Plan for the Implementation of the Anti-Corruption Review of Legislation.  

Chuchulj noted that this process is being implemented based on an annual plan and upon adopted requests for opinions and submitted acts from other institutions, primarily the Government and the Ministry of Justice, and is being carried out based on a methodology adopted by the SCPC.

The plan, he added, covers some of the laws that have not been completed, but are contained in this year's plan. The anti-corruption check, he continued, will be carried out over the law on lobbying, the law on local self-government, the law on expert testimony, the law on financing political parties, the rulebook on granting work licence to healthcare workers with higher education, and the law on the protection of cultural heritage.

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