Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI)

Summer School for Junior Magistrates from SEE Countries - 2006 

Focus area:
International And Regional Cooperation in the Fight against Corruption and Organized Crime

Organizers:
The event was jointly organized by the Regional Secretariats of the Stability Pact Initiatives against Corruption and Organized Crime (SPAI RSLO from Sarajevo and SPOC from Bucharest) in cooperation with the Romanian Ministry of Justice and National Institute for Magistrates;

Venue:
The event took place in Bucharest and Sovata (National Training Center for Magistrates) between July 2nd and 9th.

Training modules:

• International standards in anticorruption – the implementation of the relevant UN and CoE conventions;
• Anticorruption policies and preventive measures – available tools and best practices;
• EU experience regarding the international judicial cooperation in criminal matters (EUROJUST, European Judicial Network, OLAF, EUROPOL);
• Reform of the judiciary and anticorruption as challenges of the EU accession process.

Trainers:
Training modules benefited of the presences of experts from Croatia, France, Slovenia, Romania, as well as international organizations involved in the fight against corruption: UNODC, Council of Europe, OLAF, Stability Pact Initiatives against Corruption and Organized Crime.

Participants:
Magistrates, prosecutors and judges, from Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Romania and Serbia;

• List of Participants

Graduation:
All participants successfully passed a final written examination.
Graduation certificates were delivered under the co-signature of the Romanian Minister of Justice, Monica Macovei and Veselin Sukovic, SPAI RSLO Executive Secretary.

Presentations:

Topic 1: Stability Pact Anticorruption Initiative - A regional framework for anticorruption cooperation and sharing of best practices in SEE

Trainer: Cornel – Virgiliu Calinescu,
Anticorruption expert, SPAI RSLO

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E-mail: www.spai-rslo.org

Presentation:

• About SPAI RSLO
• SPAI RSLO at work
• SPAI RSLO Resource Center
• Cost of Corruption

Topic 2: International standards in anticorruption – the implementation of the relevant conventions of Council of Europe and United Nations

Trainer: Eline Weeda,
Head of the Dutch Delegation with GRECO

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WEB: www.greco.coe.int


Presentation: Council of Europe Anticorruption Standards

Trainer: Demostenes Chryssikos,
Division for Treaty Affairs Crime Conventions Section, UNODC

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WEB: www.unodc.org

Presentation:

• UNODC Anticorruption publications compendium
• UNCAC Basic Provisions International Cooperation and Assets Recovery
• UNCAC Basic Provisions Prevention and Enforcement

Topic 3: Anticorruption policies and preventive measures – available tools and best practices

Trainer: Roman Prah, Anticorruption consultant, Slovenia

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Presentation: Anticorruption Strategies and Preventive Measures

Trainer: Josip Kregar,
Dean, Faculty of Law, Zagreb, Croatia

Trainer: Laura Stefan,
SPAI Senior Representative, Director, Ministry of Justice, Romania

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WEB: www.just.ro

Presentation:

• Romania National Anticorruption Strategy
• Romania National Agency for Integrity
• Annex 8 - Modifying the Forms for the Statement of Wealth and Statement of Interests

Topic 4: EU experience regarding the international judicial cooperation in criminal matters (EUROJUST, European Judicial Network, OLAF, EUROPOL)

Trainer: Marie Leclair, Magistrate, France

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WEB: www.just.ro

Presentatios:

• Eurojust - Annual Report 2005
• UE Experience Regarding the International Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters

Trainer: Alberto Perduca,
Director, Investigations and Operations Unit, OLAF

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WEB: http://ec.europa.eu/comm/anti_fraud/index_en.html

Trainer: Moritz Hildebrand,
EU legal advisor, SPOC Secretariat

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WEB: www.spoc-secretariat.org

Presentation: SPOC Witness Protection in SEE

Topic 5: Reform of the judiciary and anticorruption as challenges of the EU accession process

Trainer: Alina Stoica, Anticorruption prosecutor,
National Anticorruption Department, Romania

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WEB: www.pna.ro

Presentation: Case study - High level Corruption

Trainer: Drazen Jelenic,
Deputy Special Prosecutor, USKOK (Special Prosecutor's Department for Fighting Corruption and Organized Crime), Croatia

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WEB: www.dorh.hr

Trainer: Tudorel Stefan, Prosecutor,
National Institute for Magistrates, Romania

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Presentation:

• Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters
• Challenges of the EU Accession Process
• Judgment of the Court of 19 June 1990. The Queen v Secretary of State for Transport, ex parte: Factortame Ltd and others.
• Acquis of the European Union

Trainer: Alina Albu, Prosecutor,
Anticorruption General Directorate, Ministry of Administration and Interior

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