“We’d like to inform our society that today, the ruling party initiates the package of the legal changes in view of the capacity building of the anti-corruption activity for the fulfillment of paragraph 4 of the 12-point Plan of the European Commission”, - the Chair of the Legal Issues Committee, Anri Okhanashvili stated at the briefing today.

According to him, the changes establish the legal entity of public law – The Anti-Corruption Bureau.

“We establish the LEPL Anti-Corruption Bureau with a key function to facilitate countering corruption. The Bureau shall oversee the fulfillment of the anti-corruption policy and the national anti-corruption strategy by coordinating the activity of the respective bodies, organizations and officials. The Bureau shall be accountable to the Parliament and the Inter-Agency Anti-Corruption Council, namely, the Chief of the Bureau shall submit the annual report to the Parliament, and the intermittent reports to the Inter-Agency Anti-Corruption Council. The candidates for the Chief of the Bureau shall be selected through the open and transparent competition the Competition Commission composed of the representatives of the state agencies and civil society and shall be nominated to the Prime Minister to shortlist and appoint a certain candidate”, - he noted.

The legal changes serve for the fulfillment of paragraph 4 of the EU recommendations and reception of the EU candidate status by Georgia.

“We, within the Committee, intend to submit this initiative today for the approval to in the nearest future start the Committee hearings”, - he added.

The package has been developed by the Working Group with the engagement of the representatives of the state institutions and civil society