Poland's Phyrric victory over bribery and collusion on its way to the European Union

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Poland's Phyrric victory over bribery and collusion on its way to the European Union

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Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: very good, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Interdisciplinary Institute for European Questions), course: Transformation in CEE and Enlargement of EU, 21 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Despite the bad impression Poland's position in the Transparency International
Corruption Perceptions Index has remained unchanged since 1999.
Nevertheless, corruption is not declining but rather growing in several areas. As
a matter of fact, the number of scandals reporting "irregularities" involving
politicians and other public officials has been on the rise for the last two or three
years. So is the discussion of legislation and other measures. Attention shall be
drawn to the fact that the considerably higher number of convictions for
corruption since 1998, as well as the more common presence of corruptionrelated
topics in the media is rather due to greater media activity than thanks to
the effectiveness of institutions of prosecution.
According to several surveys corruption is most widespread in the healthcare
system, judiciary, sub-national governments and central State administration.
Furthermore, it is common in privatisation and off-budget agencies activities,
political party finance, as well as in the tax and customs administration.
Corruption becomes an important issue even in the private sector.
This paper aims to elaborate the impact of the EU accession on the anticorruption
policy. After presenting data and main areas of corruption, the most
important institutions and legislation will be dealt with. It seems that public
procurement is the area the most compatible with EU anti-corruption legislation.
Consequently, this topic will be discussed in detail in this paper. As already
mentioned, corruption in other areas is rather increasing as decreasing. The
reasons and consequences for this devel