Skopje, 24 March 2025 (MIA) – The State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) has started looking into several legislations, including the law on hospitality, law on protection and rescue, law on inspection supervision and the local self-government law in order to detect and prevent potential risks of corruption during the implementation of required procedures related to the issuing of approvals and operation licenses, permits allowing hospitability venues to operate and also in relation to supervision.

The anti-corruption examination of laws, the SCPC said Monday, involves full and systemic evaluation of the legal regulations to identify ways for misuse, conflicts of interest, vagueness and gaps in the legislation that might encourage corruptive practices.

“We expect the anti-corruption investigation to result in strengthening of the preventative approach rather than triggering of reaction to corruptive practices post-factum, encouraging proactivity allowing laws to be free of corruptive risks. The procedure will also evaluate risks and analyse specific provisions that may create conditions for favouring or lack of transparency,” said the press release. 

Competent institutions and the civil society will be also engaged to make sure the analysis is independent and unbiased, the anti-corruption commission said. 

The whole process, it noted, will be public and transparent and reports and recommendations will be forwarded to the government and Parliament in a bid these laws to be improved. 

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