Article 18. Procedure for submitting a declaration of potential conflict of interests

If an employeeʼs personal data change, the employee shall complete a declaration of potential conflict of interests and submit it to the special unit annually no later than 15 January.

A candidate for a position in a state body or other organization, as well as an employee being transferred to another position, shall complete and submit a declaration of potential conflict of interests in the prescribed form.

The special unit shall:

consolidate and analyze the annual declarations of potential conflict of interests by 15 February each year;

by March 1 each year, submit proposals to the ethics commission to ensure the sufficiency (correctness) of measures to regulate potential conflicts of interests;

based on the opinion adopted by the ethics commission, submit proposals to the employeeʼs immediate supervisor or to the superior head of the state body or other organization on measures to regulate potential conflicts of interests.

When a candidate is hired or an employee is transferred after submitting the declaration of potential conflict of interests, the special unit shall carry out the actions provided for in part three of this article within five days.