Comparative legal analysis of the anti-corruption policy in Ukraine and Poland
Abstract
Effective counteraction to corruption remains relevant in some countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, given that manifestations of corruption are a real obstacle to the realization of human rights, social justice, economic development and jeopardizes the proper functioning of a market economy. However, if such countries of the region, such as Poland, succeeded in ensuring the implementation of an effective anti-corruption policy, a number of post-Soviet countries, in particular Ukraine, faced significant obstacles to overcoming corruption and effectively implementing national anti-corruption policies. Therefore, within this article, a comparative legal analysis of the anti-corruption legislation of these countries has been carried out. The state of implementation of national anti-corruption policies and the formulated conclusions, which provide answers to the questions of improving the implementation of national anti-corruption policy, in particular Ukraine, are considered. Thus, the existence of modern national anti-corruption legislation that best meets the requirements and recommendations on which the state relies on relevant international treaties can be the key to successful anti-corruption efforts.
Downloads
References
CONFORTY. B. 1993. International Law and the Role of Domestic Legal System. Dorderecht, Netherlands.
CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE. 1996. On June 28. Available online. In: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/254%D0%BA/96-%D0%B2% D1%80#Text. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
COUNCIL OF EUROPE. 1999. Criminal Law Convention On Corruption. 1999. Available online. In: https://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full- list/-/conventions/treaty/173. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL CODE OF UKRAINE. 2012. Available online. In: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/4651-17. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
CRIMINAL CODE OF UKRAINE. 2001. Available online. In: https://zakon. rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2341-14. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE No. 1001/2011. 2011. (On the National Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2011-2015). 2011. Available online. In: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1001/2011. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE No. 217/2015. 2015. (On the Establishment of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine).
DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE No. 218/2015. 2015. (About the appointment of A. Sitnik as Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine). ON AMENDMENTS TO CERTAIN LEGISLATIVE ACTS OF UKRAINE TO ENSURE THE ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION BUREAU OF UKRAINE AND THE NATIONAL AGENCY FOR
CORRUPTION PREVENTION. 2015. Available online. In: https:// zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/198-19. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
COUNCIL OF EUROPE. 1997. Resolution (97) 24 On the Twenty Guiding Principles For The Fight Against Corruption. Available online. In: https://polis.osce.org/node/4681. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
APPENDIX TO RESOLUTION. COUNCIL OF EUROPE. 1999. Resolution (99) 5 Establishing the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO). 1999. Available online. In: https://rm.coe.int/16806cd24f. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
RESOLUTION OF THE CABINET OF MINISTERS No. 1240. 2011. (On Approval of State Program for Prevention and Counteraction Corruption 2011-2015) 2011 (Ukr). Available online. In: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/ laws/show/1240-2011-%D0%BF. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
RESOLUTION OF THE CABINET OF MINISTERS No. 265. 2015. (On Approval of the State Program for Implementing Principles of State Anti- Corruption Policy in Ukraine (Anti-Corruption Strategy) for 2015-2017). 2015. Available online. In: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/265- 2015-%D0%BF. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION. 2003. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Available online. In: https://www. unodc.org/documents/treaties/UNCAC/Publications/Convention/08- 50026_E.pdf. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
ANTI-CORRUPTIONPROGRAM2018-2020.2017.Availableonline.In:http:// gamma.infor.pl/zalaczniki/mpo/2018/003/mpo.2018.003.012.0001. pdf. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
BANAKHIEVICH, Yurii. 2017. Poland and corruption: The life of officials will be “discovered” by law. Available online. In: https://www.ukrinform. ua/rubric-world/2222765-polsa-ikorupcia-zitta-cinovnikiv-vidkriut- zakonom.html. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
BARDACHOV, Yurii. 2014. Anti-corruption reform in Ukraine as a significant factor ensuring national security. Theory and Practice of Public Administration and Local Government 2014 (2). Available online. In: http://nbuv.gov.ua/UJRN/Ttpdu_2014_2_3. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
BOYKO, Vladimir. 2018. The apartment issue of Artem Sitnik. Available online. In: https://ord-ua.com/2018/04/13/kvartirne-pitannya-artema- sitnika/. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
CBA. 2016. Map of corruption. Available online. In: https://cba.gov.pl/ftp/pdf/ Mapa%20korupcji%202016.pdf. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
CHRISTENSEN, John; SHAXSON, Nicholas; BAKER, Raymond. 2008. Catching up with corruption. The American Interest vol. 4 (1). Available online. In: https://www.the-american-interest.com/2008/09/01/ catching-up-with-corruption/. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
DE VEL, Guy; CSONKA, Peter. 2002. The Council of Europe Activities against Corruption. Corruption, Integrity and Law Enforcement. Ed. by Cyrille Fijnaut and Leo Humberts. Kluwer Law International. The Hague/ London/New York.
FALKNER, Gerda; TREIB, Oliver. 2008. “Three Worlds of Compliance or Four? The EU-15 Compared to New Member States” In: Journal of Common Market Studies. Vol. 2, No. 46, pp. 293–313.
FEDORKO, Oleh. 2019. “Independence of National Anti-corruption Bureau: myth or reality”. In: Journal of Actual problems of domestic jurisprudence 2019: Special issue. рр. 108-111. Available online. In: http://apnl.dnu. in.ua/2019/31.pdf. Consultation date: 28/01/2021.
FUNDACJĄ PANOPTYKON. 2015. The Constitutional Court with the eyes of Panoptykon. Available online. In: https://panoptykon.org/wiadomosc/ trybunal-konstytucyjny-okiem-panoptykonu. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
GALTUNG, Fredrik. 2005. Measuring the immeasurable: boundaries and functions of (macro) corruption indices. Available online. In: http:// www.anti-corruption.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Galtung- Measuring-the-Immeasurable.pdf. Consultation date: 29/03/2021
GENERAL PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF UKRAINE. 2019. Uniform report on criminal offenses in January-December 2018. Available online. In: https://www.gp.gov.ua/ua/stst2011.html?dir_id=113653&libid=100820&c=edit&_c=fo. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
GRECO. 2017. Evaluation report Ukraine. Available online. In: https:// rm.coe.int/grecoeval4rep-2016-9-fourth-evaluation-round-corruption- prevention-in-/1680737207. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
HROMADSKE TV. 2018. Five NACP scandals: what the head of the agency Natalia Korchak remembered. Available online. In: https://hromadske. ua/posts/5-skandaliv-nazk-chym-zapamiatalasia-ochilnytsia-ahentstva-nataliia-korchak. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
JOHNSTON, Michael. 2011. Why do so many Anti-corruption efforts fail. Available online. In: http://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/ files/upload_documents/NYU-Annual-Survey-67-3-Johnston.pdf. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
JUDGMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF POLAND. 2009. Ref. K 54/07 (June 23, 2009). Available online. In: https://trybunal.gov. pl/postepowanie-i-orzeczenia/wyroki/art/4929-definicja-ustawowa- korupcji-zasady-zbierania-danych-osobowych-i-prowadzenia- dzialalnosci-kontro. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
KHMARA, Oleksij. 2013. The state program to prevent and combat corruption for 2011-2015 worth more than UAH 820 million may remain in the status of “filkin’s diploma”. Available online. In: https://m.tyzhden.ua/ publication/78657. Consultation date: 28/01/2021.
KLITGAARD, Robert; MACLEAN-ABAROA, Ronald; PARRIS H., Lindsey. 2000. Corrupt cities: a practical guide to cure and prevention. Institute for Con6temporary Studies. Oakland, California.
KOLOMIETS, Victoria. 2019. «Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine Sytnyk entered in the register of corrupt officials». Available online. In: https://hromadske.ua/posts/direktora-nabu-sitnika-vnesli- do-reyestru-korupcioneriv Consultation date: 28/01/2021.
LANDELL-MILLS, Pierre. 2013. Citizens against corruption. Report from the front line. Partnership for Transparency Funding. UK.
LEDENEVA, Alena; BRATU, Roxana; KÖKER, Philipp. 2017. “Corruption studies for the twenty-first century: paradigm shifts and innovative approaches” In: The Slavonic and East European Review. Vol. 1, No. 95, pp. 1-20.
NABU. 2018. NABU report for the first half of 2018. Available online. In: https://nabu.gov.ua/sites/default/files/reports/zvit_10.08.2018_sayt.pdf. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
NACP. 2017. Analytical Report on the implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2014-2017 and the State Program on the Implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy Principles. Available online. In: https:// nazk.gov.ua/sites/default/files/docs/2017/%D0%BC. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
NIKOLAENKO, Tetiana. 2019. The quiet death of Holodnitsky fishes. Available online. In: https://lb.ua/news/2019/01/18/417465_tiha_smert_ribok_ holodnitskogo.html. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
OBURA, Ken. 2014. Unmasking the phenomenon of corruption: perspectives from legal theory. SPECULUM JURIS 2014 (1). Available online. In: https://web.archive.org/web/20170713101207/http://www.ufh.ac.za/ speculumjuris/files/pdf/SJ1614_1.pdf. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
ON ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY FOR 2018-2020. 2018. Available online. In: http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb2/webproc4_1?pf3511=63942. Consultation date: 12/03/2021. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
ON THE CENTRAL ANTI-CORRUPTION BUREAU. 2006. Available online. In: http://prawo.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id= WDU20061040708. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
ON THE NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION BUREAU OF UKRAINE. 2014. Available onlaine. In: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1698-18. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
ON THE PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENT POLICY. 2006. Available online. In: http://www.lexlege.pl/ustawa-o-zasadach-prowadzenia-polityki- rozwoju/. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
ON THE PRINCIPLES OF STATE ANTI-CORRUPTION POLICY IN UKRAINE (ANTICORRUPTION STRATEGY) FOR 2014-2017. 2014. Available online. In: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1699-18/. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
PIECZONKA, Jarosław. 2016. Miami - former counterintelligence agent: For the previous PiS government, the CBA’s activities were good, but the implementation was poor. Natemat.pl. Available online. https:// natemat.pl/178315,majami-byly-agent-kontrwywiadu-za-poprzednich- rzadow-pis-kierunki-dzialan-cba-byly-dobre-ale-realizacja-slaba. Consultation date: 28/03/2021
POLIKOVSKAYA, Yulia. 2017. One-third of Ukrainians find justification for corruption to resolve personal cases. Available online. In: https://zaxid. net/33_ukrayintsiv_vvazhayut_koruptsiyu_chastinoyu_traditsiy_ n1439644. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
POPE, Jeremy. 2011. Fighting Corruption: Elements of the System of State Integrity. Planet-Print Ltd. Rivne, Ukraine.
POYNTING, Scott; WHYTE, David. 2017. “Special edition: Corruption downunder – guest editors’ introduction” In: International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. Vol. 6, No.4, pp. 1-11.
PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION. 2014. Available online. In: https://zakon. rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1700-18. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
RADIO LIBERTY 2. 2018. SAP claims clashes with NABU. Available online. In: https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/news-nabu-sap/29498763.html. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
RADIO LIBERTY. 2018. “Schemes” captured the night at Sitnik’s home at President Poroshenko. Available online. In: https://www.radiosvoboda. org/a/news-schemes/29359771.html. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
SEREMET, Andrzej. 2016. Report of the Prosecutor General from the annual activity in 2015. General Prosecutor’s office. Available online. In: https://pk.gov.pl/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/901ad60fac337 b0a1f096eacd0cb757f.pdf. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME. 2018. Signature and Ratification Status. Available online. In: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/ en/corruption/ratification-status.html. Consultation date: 28/03/2021.
SOUSA, Luis. 2009. “Anti-Corruption Agencies: Between Empowerment and Irrelevance” In: Crime, Law and Social Change. Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 5-22.
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL. 2020. The global coalition against corruption: corruption perceptions index 2020. In: https://www. transparency.org/en/cpi/2020/index/nzl. Consultation date: 28/01/2021.
UKRAINIAN PRAVDA. 2016. NACP has officially been left without a quorum -Chumak left the agency. Available online. In: https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/news/2016/03/3/7045757/. Consultation date: 28/01/2021.
UKRAINIAN PRAVDA. 2019. For the whole of 2018, $ 5,000 were confiscated from corrupt officials. Available online. In: https://www.pravda.com.ua/ news/2019/01/18/7204151/. Consultation date: 28/01/2021.
Copyright
The authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
The authors retain the copyright and guarantee the journal the right to be the first publication where the article is presented, which is published under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to share the work prior to the recognition of the authorship of the article work and initial publication in this journal.
Authors may separately establish additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal (for example, placing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
This work is under license:
Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)