During the regular lesson in the Anti-Corruption School of Young Leaders, participants were introduced to the corruption risks in the environmental sector of the RA and the structure of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), its areas of activity and peculiarities.

Ms Gohar Ghazinyan, representative of the EITI Civil Society Group, conducted the lesson.

The expert talked about the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. EITI is a global standard for promoting open and accountable management of natural resources, with 51 member states (as of 09.03.2017).

The EITI Standard covers all major issues related to the impact on nationals of the country from the extraction of natural resources, in particular how subsoil and other sector permits and contracts are granted and registered, which are the beneficiaries of these processes, what are the financial and legal regulations, how many products are produced, the size of revenue transferred from the sector to the state budget, how those revenues are distributed, what investments are made in the economy including the growth of employment.

“There is a lot of immorality in the field of entrails-use in Armenia, and there are also corruption risks. The field has been divided between some officials and government sponsors, control has been weak, and the new government has not yet taken practical steps in this direction and it is time to act,” Gohar Ghazinyan said.

“The Armenian Lawyers’ Association” NGO is organizing the Anti-Corruption School for Young Leaders in cooperation with the Armenian CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition.

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