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Fighting Corruption and Increasing Accountability:
Visible actions taken to fight corruption |
The Government should commence
preparatory work on establishing a legislative framework to facilitate
access to information held by public authorities, in
accordance with the Action Plan on legal and judicial reform adopted
by the Council for Legal and Judicial Reform. In the meantime, public
authorities mush change current practice by displaying a preparedness
to share information with the general public and with other
institutions in Government. A number of working groups will monitor
the following specific indicators of progress in this area:
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all laws,
delegated legislation and executive regulations (sub-decrees, royal
decrees, proclamations/prakas, circulars) should be published on a
regularly updated website and the Ministry of Justice should establish
a mechanism by June 2005 to provide copies of laws and regulations on
request, in order to make this information publicly accessible; (LJR). RGC propose: all laws, delegated legislation and executive regulations
(sub-decrees, royal decrees, proclamations/prakas, circulars) should
be published on a regular basis by the General Department of the
Official Gazette.
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all court
staff throughout the country will be informed by March 2005 that they
must ensure public access to all court judgments and to court
register, and the Ministry of Justice will monitor progress to ensure
implementation; (LJR). RGC propose: all court staff throughout the
country will be informed by March 2005 that they must ensure public
access to all court judgments and to court registers. The system set
out in the Action Plan will be implemented to monitor progress to
ensure the implementation. Quarterly Bulletin will be produced and
will be available at the Administrative Office of the Supreme Court.
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information
on the number an level of civil servants by ministry will be publicly
available by January 30, 2005 (PAR);
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the
Ministry of Economy and Finance and interested line ministries to have
access to the HRMIS data of the Council of Administrative Reform for
budget preparation purpose (PFM);
The above two to be replaced by the
following:
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Access to
relevant HRMIS data on a read only basis provide to ministries as
requested when the database has been secured and the networking
environment is operational.
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disclosure
of information by June 2005 about all interests on state property,
including a complete list of land concessions for economic purposes,
forestry concessions, tourism concessions, fishing lost, mining
concessions, holders of interests in military development zones, port
and airport concessions and industrial development concessions, and
all relevant concessions, maps and boundaries; and details of
compliance status (land, forestry, fishing);
The above to be replaced by the
following:
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Provision
of information according to the principle of transparency related to
state property
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Information
relating to contractual arrangements involving the use of other state
property and assets will be made public by (PFM)
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a
public accessible and regularly updated register of shareholders of
all companies opening in Cambodia and
details of parent companies where relevant, including but not limited
to all concessionaires holding interests in state property, should be
established by the Ministry of Commerce by June 2005 (land, forestry,
fishing).
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