BackIn the first half of this year, Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC, Chairperson Jeon Hyun Heui) conducted a Corruption Impact Assessment which found 155 corruption risk factors in 71 out of 1,010 enacted and revised statutes of central government agencies and recommended improvement thereon.
The ACRC analyzed that the recommendations for improvement in the first half of this year increased by about 50% from those made in the same period last year (103 corruption risk factors in 49 statutes) as it assessed not only statutes that are closely related to the real life of the people, but also specific factors that undermine the people’s right to know and fairness.
Major areas of improvement recommendations made this time include fleshing out and objectifying discretionary provisions to prevent corruption by controlling excessive exercise of discretionary authority (42 cases, 27.1%); establishing institutional tools to prevent conflicts of interest in the performance of public duties by public officials (41 cases, 26.5%); and enhancing predictability to ensure legal stability for the people (28 cases, 18.1%).
The ACRC conducted the corruption impact assessment in conjunction with 30 public institutions in order to remove corruption-causing factors inherent in bylaws in advance.
ACRC Chairperson Jeon Hyun Heui said, “We will create a fair and transparent society by discovering and improving corruption-causing factors in the statutes of central government agencies and bylaws of public institutions that greatly affect people’s real lives.”
Source: Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission
