Integrity in the Federal Administration — Annual Report 2021

A high-performing and sustainable administration lives on the trust of citizens. This trust requires the integrity of the administration. Administrative integrity means that in Germany, all employees in the public service make decisions in accordance with law, incorruptible and objectively. One measure of the integrity management of the federal administration is the report on integrity in the federal administration (integrity report). The Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs (BMI) presents the Integrity Report annually on 30 September, for the first time on 30 September 2021, to the Committee on Home Affairs and Home Affairs (Inna) and to the Committee on Budgets (HHA) of the German Bundestag. The integrity management of the Federal Administration includes various aspects of administrative integrity such as national and international corruption prevention, transparency regarding the benefits received by private individuals such as sponsorship, donations and other donations in favour of the Federal Administration and the deployment of external persons in the Federal Administration, as well as internal audits in the Federal Administration. On the recommendation of the Federal Audit Office (BRH), the BMI has proposed to merge existing reports into an integrity report from the reporting year 2020. This procedural proposal was agreed by the Inna at the 102nd meeting on 7 October 2020 and the HHA at the 75th meeting on 28 October 2020. As of the reporting year 2020, the Integrity Report thus links for the first time the so far separate reporting: — for the prevention of corruption in the Federal Administration, — on sponsorship services to the Federal Administration, — on the use of external persons (personnel exchange and knowledge transfer) in the Federal Administration and — on individual issues of internal audit in the Federal Administration.