Podgorica, (Montena-business)-The proposal of the Law on preventing interest conflicts, represents an anticorruption Law and it should have been adopted before, because it is a precondition for entering into serious reform processes, economists agreed at today’s discussion about this proposal, organized by the Centre for Transition. At the second day of the meeting, among other law experts were professor Dragan Prlja, secretary of State Prosecutor, Seka Strugar, professor of the University in Zagreb, Josip Kregar and law proposer representative Nebojsa Medojevic. According to professor Kregar, there are several classic situations of interest conflicts. The most important situation is misusing of influence, and also getting jobs beyond the regular job and misusing it for private matters. “This Law regulate using of confidential information in order to gain private profit” said Kregar. The professor added that the Law must predict rules, which will refer to the high-level authorities, and regulations for the case of accepting privileges. According to Medojevic, this is the first time that the Government invited a non-Government Organization to prepare the text of a law, which was made in cooperation with the Croatian chapter of Transparency International, the Association of American Lawyers, members of the OEBS and the Lawyer’s Association. Medojevic said that this law was made in harmony with comparative analysis of 20 laws with help of people who made similar laws in the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Poland. “For the needs of the law the definition of a State Official was enlarged, and now State Officials are also State Prosecutors, members of the Privatisation Council, the Mayor, the directors of the Funds and all of those who can spend State’s money and misuse its function” said Medojevic. Medojevic explained that the new law predicted an obligation for those people to declare their incomes and expenses, and they could get a present of DEM 150 from a donator during the year. “According to this law, a State Official can not get receive cash, value metals, securities, and they can not be the members of the private companies’ managing boards, but they can be members of managing boards in state owned companies, without getting payment for it” said Medojevic. According to Medojevic, it was formed an independent state commission, which will watch interests conflicts, and every accredited journalist will be allowed to be present at the meetings. Medojevic added that it had also been introduced a criminal act punishing illegal fortunate gains by misusing an official status, and that the state commission could suggest abandonment of State Official function as a punishment. Medojevic said that the Government, in order to create a final version of this law, had appointed its experts group, and the law would be put in procedure already in January.