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LIVE: MANAGING CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AND STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
Managing Conflicts of Interest in Central Government and State-Owned Enterprises EXPERT FORUM AND ROUNDTABLE June 18, 2021, 14:00–16:00 (EET) This roundtable is the second in a three-part series concerning GRECO recommendations and Latvia’s progress in combatting corruption and advancing transparency. The aim of this discussion is to increase awareness and discussion on the prevention, identification, and management of conflicts ...
SUMMARY: WHAT SHOULD BE LEGISLATION ON LOBBYING IN LATVIA
At the roundtable discussion on April 23, 2021 we discussed the planned legislation on lobbying in Latvia alongside international experts. On the Fourth Evaluation Round by GRECO Latvia received recommendations to establish rules on how members of the Parliament engage with interest representatives (lobbyists) and other third parties who seek to influence the legislative process. Since 2019, ...
VIDEO: TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL LATVIA AND U.S. EMBASSY IN LATVIA IS ORGANISING THE ONLINE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION “LEGISLATION ON LOBBYING IN LATVIA”
Video without interpretation is available here on Youtube -> Transparency International Latvia and U.S. Embassy in Latvia organised the online roundtable discussion “Legislation on Lobbying in Latvia”. The aim of this event is to increase awareness and discussion about what is the best international practice and what is the best scope and principles of the lobbying ...
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL LATVIA RELEASES NEW UPDATE TO THE PLATFORM “DEPUTĀTI UZ DELNAS”
Transparency International Latvia has released a new update to the platform “Deputāti uz Delnas”. The platform now includes a new section called “MP database”, in which users can visualize basic statistics about the MPs currently sitting in the Parliament and, through a “MP grid”, can easily access basic profile information, and data on donations to political ...
SEVERAL WAYS TO IMPROVE LATVIA’S INDICATORS IN THE CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX ARE IDENTIFIED
To help understand the reasons for Latvia’s stagnation in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and to explore possible ways of reducing corruption, Transparency International Latvia (TI Latvia) hosted a discussion panel on 18 February, 2021. With a view to providing insight into the problems and to point to concrete solutions, participants included justice and corruption ...
PUBLICATION – FINAL REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTEGRITY PACT TO MONITOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RIGA TRAMLINE INFRASTRUCTURE
Transparency International Latvia has published the final report summarising the implementation, between 2016 and 2020, of the Integrity Pacts (IPs) to monitor procurements for the development of the tramline infrastructure in Riga. The report includes a summary of the various steps of implementation of the Integrity Pacts, with an emphasis on the impacts of the ...
CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX 2020: LATVIA’S SCORE SLIGHTLY IMPROVES
Corruption Perceptions Index 2020: Latvia’s score slightly improves, but bolder reforms are needed to crack down on political corruption TI Latvia’s analysis, full text -> Transparency International has published the results of the Corruption Perceptions Index 2020. Latvia’s score has increased by 1, from 56 to 57, and ranks 42nd the world (together with Cyprus and Costa ...
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL LATVIA LAUNCHES A NEW VERSION OF THE POPULAR WEBSITE “DEPUTĀTI UZ DELNAS”
Transparency International Latvia (Delna) has launched a new version of the website Deputāti uz Delnas. The website features interactive tools that allow users to easily explore data and information about the finances of political parties as well as Members of the Parliament’s outside interests. Data and information were collected from the Corruption Prevention and Combating ...
PRESENTING THE NEW VERSION OF DEPUTĀTI UZ DELNAS
In 2019 and 2020, in the framework of the project “Integrity Watch Europe”, funded by the European Commission and led by the Transparency International Secretariat, Transparency International Latvia updated the popular website “Deputāti uz Delnas”. This online event aims to: Introduce the new version of deputatiuzdelnas.lv and explain its main functionalities Explain how the website was developed, ...
CONFERENCE: THE ROAD TO LOBBYING REGULATION IN LATVIA
Transparency International Latvia and the Parliamentary Committee on Defence, Internal Affairs and Corruption Prevention of the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia in cooperation with the State Chancellery, with the support of the OGP is organising the online conference. The conference aims to discuss progress and the next steps in the development of the legal framework ...