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The latest recommendations regarding fight against corruption were issued in 2022 by GRECO and OECD.

In January 2022, GRECO published its Fifth evaluation round compliance report on Slovakia in which it concluded that Slovakia satisfactorily implemented only two out of 21 recommendations given to the country in the Fifth Round Evaluation Report adopted in 2019. The two recommendations concerned fight against corruption within the Police Force, namely the establishment of an operational anti-corruption strategy and the establishment of a risk management mechanism in order to identify corruption risks and emerging trends within the Police Force. Three recommendations were partially implemented, which concerned for instance the training of police officers, investigators; increase of representation of women in the Police Force; or the increase of effectiveness of the protection of whistleblowers from within the Police Force. However, 16 recommendations remain unimplemented. These concern important issues, such as prevention of lobbying activities towards the government by top executive functions, or the preparation of an updated Anti-Corruption Programme. In 2023 no positive development has been made.

In March 2022, the OECD also published its Integrity Review of the Slovak Republic, including 43 concrete recommendations for strengthening of the Slovak Republic’s Anti-Corruption Policy. According to the official information included in the Anti-Corruption programme of the Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic updated 30 June 2022, the Government was cooperating with OECD experts to ensure that these recommendations would be implemented and has included a specific measure on this issue in its updated Programme. However, the majority of the recommendations remain unimplemented. The Anti-Corruption programme was again updated as of 30 June 2023. No significant development has been made. Moreover, based on the Evaluation of the previous updated Anti-Corruption programme, many measures were postponed or even abolished as the government considered them to be ineffective.

In December 2023, The government introduced an amendment to the criminal law system thought accelerated legislative procedure intending to amend substantive as well as procedural law. The most notable changes include:

  • lowering the penal rates for property and economic crimes;
  • reducing the penal rates for crimes committed by public officials;
  • the abolishment of the Special Prosecutor’s Office of the Slovak Republic;
  • changes to the legal position of the cooperating person and the suspect.