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Addressing the Threat of Fraud and Corruption in Public Procurement: Review of State of the Art Approaches

Compendium

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2013

The present compendium of selected best practices addresses the threat of fraud and corruption from multiple perspectives, with the underlying purpose of providing practitioners from Romania and Greece with a set of state of the art approaches for addressing the threat of fraud and corruption in the complex multi-layered national public procurement systems. This publication is based on ideas presented at the international seminar EU's Financial Interests under Threat: New Approaches in Assessing the Risks from Public Procurement and EU Funds Fraud, organised on 31 October – 1 November 2013 in Sofia, with the support of the European AntiFraud Office (OLAF).

Civil Society in Bulgaria: Between Social Entrepreneurship and State Capture

Author(s): Todor Yalamov,Maria Doichinova / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2013

This publication analyses the changes in the third sector during the 2010 – 2013 period and at the same time outlines the positive practices in the social entrepreneurship as well as the risks that reduce the chances for nongovernmental organisations to effectively impact the democracy and well-being of Bulgaria.

Civil Society in Bulgaria: Trends and Risks

Author(s): Emil Tzenkov,Todor Galev,Svetla Encheva,Boyko Todorov,Yanita Georgieva,Pavel Antonov,Teodora Georgieva / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2010

The current analysis depicts the major trends in and risks to the development of civil society in Bulgaria. Three groups of risks are identified related to the establishment of public-private partnerships, the capture of civil society by politicians at local and national level, and the nature of commercial activities performed by non-profit organizations. The suggested legislative changes and measures target state and municipal structures related to non-profit organizations. In addition, this paper outlines measures aimed at self-regulation and greater transparency in the "third sector".

Evaluating Governance and Corruption Risk in Bulgaria

Author(s): Ruslan Stefanov,Stefan Karaboev,Todor Yalamov / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2017

Corruption continues to be one of the main social problems for Bulgaria a decade after the country’s EU accession. The Bulgarian public is one of the few in Europe, which trusts EU institutions more than its own government to find a sustainable solution to this problem. Making sure the mechanisms of EU conditionality and public procurement support deliver on these high expectations is of paramount importance for delivering a lasting solution to Bulgaria’s rule of law problems. As part of the largest ever team of social sciences and humanities in Europe – ANTICORRP.eu, CSD has developed two case studies, which help explain the key risks of corruption in the public procurement market in construction and the way the EU has impacted Bulgarian progress on anti-corruption.

Governance of the Bulgarian Public Procurement Sector: Corruption Risks and Criminal Prosecution

Author(s): Ruslan Stefanov,Todor Galev,Stefan Karaboev / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2016

Despite the legislative and institutional progress, especially in terms of increased transparency and access to data, the public procurement (PP) sector in Bulgaria continues to be associated with high levels of corruption risk. The number of irregularities uncovered by the control bodies remains considerable. At the same time there is a lack of effective investigation, while criminal cases, involving PP, are still very limited and predominantly focused on the lower levels of governance.

Mapping Report: State Capture Estimation and Monitoring of Anti-corruption Policies at the Sectoral Level in Europe /SceMaps/

Author(s): Todor Galev,Sorin Ioniță,Laura Raluca Ștefan,Alexander Gerganov,Daniela Mineva,Miguel Ángel Gavilanes,Daniela Andreatta,Fabrizio Costantino / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2019

The current report maps the policy, market, institutional, technical and data availability aspects, related to state capture (SC) assessment in three economic sectors (wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels; wholesale of pharmaceutical goods; and construction) in four European countries (Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, and Spain). The assessment is based on the State Capture Assessment Diagnostics (SCAD) methodology, which describes SC as institutionalization of corruption relations which lead to virtual privatization of governance and thus instead of public goods, the state capture process delivers systematically and permanently private goods to the captors (or privatizers) of the government functions. Processwise, state capture is the abuse of good governance rules (which includes abuse of power) in the process of drafting, adoption and enforcement of the rules themselves (including the laws) in favour of a small number of captors at the expense of society and business at large. SCAD models the abuse efforts by the business through national level indicators which reflect monopolization pressure and ineffectiveness of antimonopoly laws. At the sectoral level, additional indicators are monitored, providing proxies for a privileged status of a given business entity (company), including whether: • it enjoys privileged access to public procurement; • there is legislation or laws enhancing its market position; • it has gained a privileged legal status shielding it from prosecution; or • it receives preferential treatment in getting subsidies (most often, EU funds).

State Capture Unplugged: Countering Administrative and Political Corruption in Bulgaria

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2016

The eleventh Corruption Assessment Report of the Center for the Study of Democracy is focused on the most potent form of corruption affecting Bulgaria: state capture. The report builds on years of CSD experience in the regular monitoring and assessing of the spread of administrative and political corruption. This is now complemented by an assessment of the mechanisms by which powerful lobbies capture government decision making to the benefit of shady business interests and the detriment of public good. The report finds that these two manifestations – administrative corruption and state capture – are closely linked because they represent different facets of the same phenomenon.

Завладяване на държавата. Противодействие на административната и политическата корупция

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2016

The eleventh Corruption Assessment Report of the Center for the Study of Democracy is focused on the most potent form of corruption affecting Bulgaria: state capture. The report builds on years of CSD experience in the regular monitoring and assessing of the spread of administrative and political corruption. This is now complemented by an assessment of the mechanisms by which powerful lobbies capture government decision making to the benefit of shady business interests and the detriment of public good. The report finds that these two manifestations – administrative corruption and state capture – are closely linked because they represent different facets of the same phenomenon.