18th EPAC/EACN Annual Professional Conference
Between 22-24 October 2018, the Deputy Head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau, Dr. Grzegorz Ocieczek - assistant professor at the UKSW (Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw), took part in the 18th EPAC/EACN Annual Professional Conference (The European Partners against Corruption (EPAC) and European contact-point network against corruption (EACN)).
The main goal of this international initiative is to counteract corruption and supervise the activities of law enforcement agencies, to build and maintain mutual relations in the field of cooperation between theoreticians and practitioners in the field of combating corruption in public administration, as well as institutions supervising the work of law enforcement agencies. The idea of the conference is to draw attention to threats as well as new and effective solutions in this area. About 150 participants took part in the conference.
During this year's meeting, inter alia, issues related to: compliance & integrity, regional and national projects aimed at preventing and combating corruption and corruption in healthcare systems were discussed. During the conference, a decision was made to accept new members to the EPAC / EACN.
The European Partners Against Corruption (EPAC), established in 2004, brings together over 60 anti-corruption institutions. Based on the EPAC in 2008, the European Contact-Point Network Against Corruption (EACN) was established as a link between the anti-corruption network, which brings together nearly 60 state structures from the EU Member States. The EPAC / EACN initiative has become an annual effort to raise awareness in the scope of anticorruption among the representatives of the European Union Member States.
The Central Anticorruption Bureau was affiliated to the EPAC in 2007.
