Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI)

Summer School for Junior Magistrates from SEE Countries - 2007

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 with the support of SEEPAG and USAID

Venue:
The event took place in Training Center for Magistrates, Sovata, Romania in the period July 7-13, 2007

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 from the presences of experts from Bulgaria, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, United Kingdom as well as international organizations involved in the fight against corruption: DLAF, OLAF, Stability Pact Initiatives against Corruption and Organized Crime, Transparency International, Romania.

Participants:
Magistrates, judges and prosecutors from Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and UNMIK/Kosovo.

• List of participants

Graduation:
All participants successfully passed the final examination. Graduation certificates were delivered by the Romanian Minister of Justice, Tudor Chiuariu and co-signed by Sorin Sterie, Acting Head of SPAI- RSLO and SPOC.

Documents:

• General presentation
• Agenda

Presentations:

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

Moderators: Sorin Sterie, Acting Head of SPAI-RSLO and SPOC

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Veselin Sukovic, Montenegrin Ambassador to NATO

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

Trainer: Victor Alistar, Director of Transparency International, Romania

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Presentation: Fight against corruption- the international legal framework

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

Trainer: Oana Schmidt Heineala, Ministry of Justice, Romania, Director of the Department for Relation with the Public Ministry, Prevention of Criminality and Corruption 

Presentation: Types of Corruption. Methods of prevention and combating. The relationship between corrupter and corruptee

Trainer: Corina Badea, Ministry of Justice, Romania, Counselor of the Directorate for the Relation with the Public Ministry, Prevention of Criminality and Corruption 

Presentation: Confiscation of assets: the role of administrative control in relation to criminal investigation bodies

Trainer: Anca Marineean, Prosecutor, Romanian National Anticorruption Directorate

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Presentation: Safeguard measures in criminal law/theoretical and practical aspects- case studies

Trainer: Richard Linning, Strategic Communications Advisor, UK

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Presentation: Transparency and anti corruption. The courts at the frontline of communicating the message of zero tolerance of corruption. Using the media to get the message across.

Trainer: Constantine Palicarsky, Consultant 

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Presentations: Making the Codes of Ethics work: Practical approaches to integrity management

Managing Conflicts of Interest

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

Trainer: Marco Pecoraro (OLAF), Case and Board Management Adviser

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Presentation: Guess who’s coming to dinner: how would you deal with an OLAF request?

Trainer: Razvan Radu, Director, Directorate of International Law and Treaties, Ministry of Justice

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Presentation: Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters within the European Union of 27 Member States

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

Trainer: Anca Tamas, Director of European Affairs Directorate, Ministry of Justice, Romania

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Presentation: Are criminal law measures strictly confined to the third pillar? (latest developments)