Slovakia signs the UNCAC Review Transparency Pledge

24 July 2020 – 

Slovakia has become the 25th country to sign the UNCAC Coalition’s Transparency Pledge, voluntarily committing to a high level of transparency and civil society inclusion in the second cycle of the UNCAC implementation review.

Slovakia’s second cycle UNCAC implementation review, which covers articles on prevention (Chapter II of the UNCAC) and asset recovery (Chapter V), is meant to begin this year.

The first review cycle covering criminalisation (Chapter III) and international cooperation (Chapter IV) was conducted in 2012 and in 2013, Slovakia published the executive summary and voluntarily also the full country report.

The Transparency Pledge was signed by the Slovak Minister of Justice, Mária Kolíková, on 20 July 2020.

Click here for more details on how the review mechanism works.

Principles of Transparency

The Transparency Pledge covers the following principles, complementing the UNCAC Coalition’s guide which includes best practice approaches for promoting transparency and participation in the review process:

  1. We will publish updated review schedules for our country review
  2. We will share information about the review institution or the coordinator (focal point)
  3. We will announce the completion of the country review indicating where the report can be found
  4. We will promptly post online the self-assessment and the full country report in a UN language, together with the executive summary in local languages
  5. We will organise civil society briefings and public debates about the findings of the report
  6. We will publicly support participation of civil society observers in UNCAC subsidiary bodies