The purpose of this Law is to prescribe the legal status and functioning of the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau in order to pursue corruption prevention and combating with a complex approach, as well as to control fulfilment of the financing provisions of political organisations (parties) and associations thereof. The Bureau is the institution of direct administration which performs the functions laid down in this Law for corruption prevention and combating, and also controls fulfilment of financing regulations of political organisations (parties) and associations thereof and inspects how the restrictions laid down for the pre-election campaign, the campaign before referendum, the campaign for the initiation of a law, and the campaign for the initiation of recalling of the Saeima are complied with. The Bureau is under supervision of the Cabinet. The Cabinet shall implement the institutional supervision with the intermediation of the Prime Minister. Supervision shall include the right of the Prime Minister to inspect the rule of law of administrative decisions taken by the Head of the Bureau and withdraw unlawful decisions, and also, upon detecting unlawful failure to act, issue an order to take a decision.
Latvia · 2002-04-18