Law on prevention of corruption.

This Law prescribes measures aimed to prevent all types of conflicts of public and private interest, further regulates related restrictions on the performance of public functions, procedures regarding the submission of reports on income and assets of public officials, protection of persons who report irregularities (denominated as “whistleblower” which is a natural person employed in the private or public sector, who has acquired information about irregularities in his work environment and who submits a report on irregularities), as well as other issues of importance for the prevention and prevention of corruption on the national territory. Corruption is considered to be any abuse of an official, business, or social position or influence in order to gain personal benefit or benefit for another.
The text is divided into seven main thematic Chapters and a total of 120 articles. Titles of these Chapters are as follows: I. Basic provisions; II. Prevention of conflicts of interest in the exercise of public functions, restrictions on the exercise of public functions, gifts, sponsorships and donations and reports on the income and assets of public officials; III. Whistle-blowers; IV. Prevention of corruption; V. Agency; VI. Penalty measures; and VII. Transitional and final provisions.
Public interest, in the sense of this Law, is material and immaterial interest for the good and prosperity of all citizens under equal conditions. Private interest includes ownership and other material or immaterial interest of a public official or a person connected with a public official. Irregularities, in the sense of this Law, means also: violation of regulations, as well as an action aimed at not knowing about such a violation, especially in the areas of: labour relations, public procurement, financial services, products and markets, prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism, food and feed safety, animal health and welfare, consumer protection, product safety, healthcare, protection of privacy and personal data and security of networks and information systems, traffic safety, environmental protection, radiation protection and nuclear safety and other (see article 4). The tasks of preventing conflicts of public and private interest, restrictions on the performance of public functions, checking reports on the income and assets of public officials, acting on whistleblower reports containing information on irregularities related to endangering the public interest that indicate the existence of corruption, as well as other tasks in in accordance with this law, it is carried out by the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, as an independent and independent body, established by the Parliament of Montenegro. The existence of a conflict of interest is determined and measures to prevent a conflict of interest are taken by the Agency. The Agency can initiate a procedure for determining the existence of a threat to the public interest that points to the existence of corruption, ex officio.