| Abstract [eng] |
The main purpose of this essay is the analysis of legislation on corruption prevention and control in Lithuania, find the areas, where the anticorruption actions need to be improved in order to prevent corruption and reduce its scale. Firstly to achieve the aim the concept of corruption must be analyzed according to Lithuanian and foreign laws, legal doctrine, identify the key causes and conditions of corruption in order to assess whether the present corruption prevention and control system in Lithuania is able to eliminate these causes and reduce the spread of corruption. The analysis of the corruption prevention and control of the legal regulation includes the review of the key national and international law acts. Much attention is paid to explore the existing law in Lithuania on corruption control and the main corruption prevention legislation areas to amend are also distinguished here. The assessment of anticorruption Policy in Lithuania is based on many international organizations and other institutions such as Transparency International, Freedom house, World Bank, Global Integrity, the Lithuanian Free Market Institute study results and carried out sociological researches on the corruption phenomenon. For a comparison foreign anticorruption legal systems are overviewed and the most important success features to combat corruption in these countries identified. The findings and suggestions of this essay are seen to be important for the future anticorruption policy improvement in Lithuania: developing the legislation on the phenomenon of corruption as well as defining the responsibilities of government representatives, the consolidation and the implementation of the legal measures to prevent corruption and identifying the most important guidelines to help diminish corruption spreading in Lithuania. |
