Cabinet Resolution No.165 of 2011 organizing the National Anti-Corruption Commission.

This Resolution consisting of 17 articles implements the Royal Order No. A/65 that establishes the National Anti-Corruption Commission and provides at article 3 that the President of the National Anti-Corruption Commission and the Chief of the Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers shall draft its Statute. The Commission aims to (i) maintain integrity; (ii) promote transparency; (iii) combat financial and administrative corruption in all forms and means. The aforementioned Statute deals with (i) Commission's Legal Status and to whom It Reports (art.2); (ii) Objectives and Powers (art.3); (iii) Relations with other Entities Article 4 (arts.4 and 5); Presidency and Administrative Body (arts.6-11); (iv) Budget (art.12); (v) General Provisions (arts.13-17).
The Commission's main tasks and powers are (i) implement orders and directives relating to matters of public concern; (ii) investigate financial and administrative corruption in public works contracts, operation and maintenance contracts and other contracts relating to matters of public concern and interests of citizens in entities under the Commission's jurisdiction, and pursue necessary legal procedures if necessary; (iii) refer violations and irregularities related to financial or administrative corruption; (iv) work towards achieving objectives provided for in the National Strategy for Maintaining Integrity and Combating Corruption, pursue implementation thereof, monitor, assess, and review; (v) encourage public and private sectors to adopt plans and programs for maintaining the integrity and combating corruption; (vi) pursue with relevant entities the recovery of property and proceeds of corruption crimes; (vii) review business procedures of entities under the Commission's jurisdiction in order to identify and address deficiencies that may lead to corruption; (viii) propose laws and policies necessary to prevent and combat corruption and periodically review; (ix) set controls necessary to submit financial declarations; (x) pursue the level of compliance of entities under the Commission's jurisdiction with laws incriminating financial and administrative corruption; (xi) pursue implementation of international treaties to which the Kingdom is a party; (xii) provide direct communication channels to receive and verify reports from the public on acts involving corruption, and take necessary measures thereon; (xiii) cooperate with relevant entities and civil society institutions towards raising the sense of citizenship and the importance of protecting the public property to ensure proper management and protection thereof; (xiv) support research and studies on maintaining the integrity and combating corruption; (xvi) conduct studies and measure the impact of corruption on social cohesion and economic development, and devise methods required to address such issues; (xvii) collect, classify and analyze information, data, and statistics relating to corruption, and build databases and information systems therefor; (xviii) promote awareness on the concept of corruption and point out its dangers and effects. Powers of the President of the Commission are as follows (i) oversee achievement of the Commission's objectives; (ii) oversee its administration, finance, and personnel, and manage its affairs, in particular: the drafting of the Commission's financial and personnel by-laws, issuing of the Commission's administrative by-laws and organizational structure; to represent the Commission before public and private entities and others, and oversee the preparation of the Commission's draft budget.