Prevention of public-private collusion
We, for the purpose of preventing business-politic collusion which has been frequently cited as a main cause of various disasters and accidents, commit to prohibit awarding an unfair contract to a retired public official’s organization and to strengthen management and supervision on industries with high entry barrier such as port and shipping.
Completion Status:
Commitment filtering:
This commitment is specific as it aims to prevent public-private collusion and commits to prohibiting the awarding of unfair contracts to a retired public official’s organisation and to strengthen management and supervision of industries with a high entry barrier, such as ports and shipping.
This commitment is measurable as we can check the government’s legislation and administrative actions towards preventing public-private collusion and prohibiting the awarding of unfair contracts to former public officials.
South Korea
Evaluation:
This commitment was announced by ACRC as part of the five-year comprehensive anti-corruption plan; however, no progress has been reported in publicly available sources on the implementation of this commitment so far.
Opportunities to accelerate commitment implementation
The five-year comprehensive anti-corruption plan should be used to regulate collusion between businesses and politicians.
Recommendations
Prohibit the awarding of unfair contracts to retired public officials’ organisations and strengthen management and supervision of industries with high entry barrier, such as ports and shipping.
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According to the information provided by the ACRC, it has made several recommendations to relevant authorities and monitored their implementation:
Enhancing the transparency of operation system of leasing services of public service-related organizations (13 public service-related organizations, February 2018)
Enhancing fairness of hiring process of other public service-related organizations (255 public service-related organizations, June 2018)
Enhancing the fairness and transparency in decision-making process of deliberation committees established under public organizations (1,141 public organizations, December 2018)
Enhancing effectiveness of operation of award system for whistleblowers so that we encourage people to report corruption including collusion of private-public sector (33 administrative agencies, July 2019 and December 2019)
Enhancing the effectiveness of mitigation system of liability of whistleblowers (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Interior and Safety, Ministry of Health and Welfare, December 2019)