Methodological recommendations for conducting a scientific anti-corruption assessment of draft normative legal acts.

These Methodological recommendations for conducting a scientific anti-corruption assessment of draft normative legal acts are intended for guidance of experts in the conduct of scientific anti-corruption examination of draft normative legal acts. Scientific anti-corruption expertise shall be intended research of draft regulatory legal acts in order to revealing corruption-related norms in them with the issuance of a scientific opinion anti-corruption expertise. Anti-corruption expertise is carried out on the basis of the following principles: (a) the openness of the conclusions of the anti-corruption expertise; (b) independence and objectivity of experts in the process of conducting anti-corruption expertise; (c) avoiding favoritism towards project developers of regulatory legal act and other interested parties. In the process of preparing for the anti-corruption expertise the expert analyzes: (a) legislation concerning the draft normative legal act; (b) the concept of the draft law (if any); (c) an explanatory note (if any); (d) the text of the draft regulatory legal act; (e) a comparative table to the draft regulatory legal act when amendments and additions to the current regulatory legal acts; and (f) other available information regarding the draft regulatory legal act. The conclusion of the anti-corruption expertise contains the following sections: (a) general provisions, which include the data of an expert, developer, subject and purpose of scientific anti-corruption expertise, project name regulatory legal act, its purpose and structure; (b) a description of the problematic issues to be solved by the project regulatory legal act; (c) a description of the revealed norms of corruption; (d) assessment of the consequences of the adoption of the norm of the draft regulatory legal act regarding the possibility of committing corruption offenses; and (e) proposals for the elimination of the identified corruption-related norms, including the number of recommendations in the form of legal norms that prevent the commission corruption offenses.