The OECD wishes to express its appreciation to the European Union for its generous support to the EU for Integrity Programme for the Eastern Partnership, which served as the framework for the development of this study. This report was prepared by an OECD consultant Ruslan Ryaboshapka, as well as by Andrii Kukharuk and Noel Merillet, Anti-Corruption Analysts in the ACN Secretariat, Anti-Corruption Division of the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs. Olga Savran, ACN Manager, provided valuable guidance.
The authors express their gratitude to the anti-corruption authorities of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania and Ukraine for providing responses to the questionnaire for the purposes of this study. Additionally, we appreciate the comments from representatives of anti-corruption authorities of Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, North Macedonia and Slovenia regarding their experience, which are reflected in the report, and additional information provided by Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania and Ukraine.
The draft study also benefited from valuable comments and input from OECD colleagues from the Global Relations and Cooperation Directorate (William Tompson), the Public Governance Directorate (Carissa Munro) and the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (Keelan Smith-Connor).
Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to Liv Gudmundson, Preeya Khongwir and Genieve Crump, Communications Officers, for their helpful support with the formatting, design, and promotion of this report.