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ACRC Will Embark on Comprehensive Review of Regulations of 99 Quasi-Governmental Organizations
- Date2021-03-15
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ACRC Will Embark on Comprehensive Review of Regulations of 99 Quasi-Governmental Organizations
- Assessment to Be Made Mostly on Corruption-Causing Factors in Contracts -
(11 February 2021, ACRC)
The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (Chairperson Jeon Hyun-Heui, ACRC) plans to examine all of the company regulations of 99 quasi-governmental organizations in 7 different fields this year.
The ACRC this year will review the company regulations of the 99 organizations, starting with those in the field of ▴employment and welfare, next in ▴science and information, ▴education and culture, ▴land and safety, ▴agriculture, forestry and fishery, ▴industry and trade, and lastly in ▴finance and economy. The plan is to carry out the examinations mostly on contracts in terms of concreteness and objectivity of the institutions’ discretionary regulations by referring to the results of last year's assessment.
< Schedule for 2021 Assessment of Company Regulations >
| Field | Organization subject to assessment | Review schedule |
| Employment & welfare | 20 organizations, including Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service and Government Employees Pension Corporation | March |
| Science & information | 12 organizations, including National IT Industry Promotion Agency and National Research Foundation of Korea | April |
| Education & culture | 13 organizations, including Korea Tourism Organization and Korean Institute for Healthy Family | June |
| Land & safety | 13 organizations, including Korea Rail Network Authority and Korea National Park Service | July |
| Agriculture, forestry & fishery | 14 organizations, including Korea Institute for Animal Products Quality Evaluation and Korea Rural Community Corporation | September |
| Industry & trade | 16 organizations, including Korea Trade Insurance Corporation and Korea International Cooperation Agency | October |
| Finance & economy | 11 organizations, including Korea Credit Guarantee Fund and Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation | November |
The Commission also is going to reflect the public's opinions and suggestions received via People's Idea Box in the review process while developing practical improvement plans by taking advantage of expert advices and discussions with public institutions so that the institutions can implement the plans in a voluntary manner.
< Organizations Subject to 3-Year Plan Review >
| Review schedule | Organization subject to review | No. of organization | Total | |
| 2020 | Market-based public corporations | 16 | 187 | |
| Quasi-market-based public corporations | 20 | |||
| Local government-invested public corporations & local government public corporations (urban development, tourism, transportation, etc.) | 49 | |||
| Local government-invested public corporations & local government public corporations (facility management) | 102 | |||
| 2021 | Fund-management-based quasi-governmental institutions | 13 | 99 | |
| Commissioned-service-based quasi-governmental institutions | 86 | |||
| 2022 | Other public institutions (economy, science and culture) | 116 | 209 | |
| Other public institutions (society, education, diplomacy and national defence) | 93 | |||
The ACRC developed a plan to conduct the review of all of the unfair and unreasonable company regulations of 495 public agencies in February last year, and delivered 316 improvement suggestions to 69 institutions in 5 fields (energy, air/sea ports, transportation, urban development and tourism/leisure).
The most suggestions for improvement made last year was about ▴electronic revenue stamp and private contracts (97 cases, 30.7%), followed by ▴employment and disciplinary actions (64 cases, 20.3%) and ▴discretionary authority (52 cases, 16.5%).
Looking at a specific example, the Stamp Tax Act requires public institutions to share the burden of paying revenue stamps with subcontractors when entering into a contract. However, the ACRC found that 60 institutions (87.0%) out of 69 agencies had the subcontractor to pay the most or all of the stamp tax. The Commission therefore advised these institutions to take their fair share of the burden.
The ACRC Chairperson Jeon Hyun-Heui remarked that "we will make proactive efforts in shaping a fair and transparent society by identifying and improving on corruption causing factors in public institutions' own regulations."
