Prevention of corruption in the federal administration (Annual Report 2019)

Preventing corruption is a prerequisite for a functioning, efficient and rule of law administration that trusts citizens. The Federal Government is accountable to the German Bundestag for the implementation of the Federal Government’s Directive on the prevention of corruption of 30 July 2004 (the Directive) by showing the practical measures to prevent corruption and the suspected cases of corruption. On the basis of several decisions of the Audit Committee, the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI) reports annually to the Audit Committee on the development and results of corruption prevention in the federal administration. Following the discussion of the report in the Committee, the 2019 Corruption Prevention Report was published as a PDF on the BMI website and the annexed table was published as machine-readable csv files. This is the last corruption prevention report. On the recommendation of the Federal Court of Auditors, BMI proposed that in future the reports on prevention of corruption, sponsorship and the use of external persons should be brought together from the reporting year 2020 onwards and that reports on integrity in the federal administration should be grouped together. This procedural proposal was approved by the Committee on Home Affairs and Home Affairs at its 102th meeting on 7 October 2020 and by the Committee on Budgets at its 75th meeting on 28 October 2020. The report on integrity in the federal administration is due to be submitted annually by 30 September, and for the first time by 30 September 2021.预防腐败是构建运转顺畅、高效廉洁且秉持法治原则、获公民信任的行政体系的必要前提。德国联邦政府需就2004年7月30日发布的《联邦政府腐败预防指令》（以下简称《指令》）的落实情况，向德国联邦议院（German Bundestag）进行问责，具体方式为公示腐败预防的实际举措及疑似腐败案件。根据审计委员会的多项决议，德国内政、建设与社区部（BMI）每年向审计委员会提交联邦行政体系内腐败预防工作的进展与成效报告。该报告经委员会审议后，《2019年腐败预防报告》以PDF格式发布于BMI官网，其所附表格以可机器读取的逗号分隔值（CSV）文件形式公开。 本报告为最后一份独立的腐败预防专项报告。根据德国联邦审计法院的建议，BMI提出自2020报告年度起，将腐败预防、公务赞助及外部人员聘用相关的报告整合，并将联邦行政体系诚信建设相关报告归为一类。该程序性提案于2020年10月7日经内务委员会第102次会议审议通过，并于2020年10月28日经预算委员会第75次会议审议通过。联邦行政体系诚信建设报告需于每年9月30日前提交，首份报告应于2021年9月30日前完成提交。