Key Terms
Budget refers to the budget of the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the international obligations of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ethics is the science of morals, which investigates the meaning and goals of moral norms, the basic criteria for moral evaluation, as well as the general foundation and source of morality. Ethics primarily belongs to philosophy, which studies human behavior that is accepted under certain moral aspects.
Integrity means completeness, indivisibility, impeccability, and honesty. When referring to a person's integrity, it refers to behavior, and especially what is behind that behavior, what motivates such behavior. Having integrity means having an unconditional and unwavering commitment to one's own moral values and duties. Integrity means being aware of one's completeness as a human being as well as the diversity among other people. Integrity also includes honesty, reality, prudence, and other moral values of a person. Integrity relates to the completeness of a person, accepting all present and known diversities. Along with moral values, integrity also implies a personal component. Integrity is also work on a personal level, working on developing the person as a whole. Integrity is also the ability to exercise self-control over one's feelings and impulses to the extent that they do not overpower reason. One definition is that integrity is the ability to maintain dignity, both personal and that of others.
Public property includes movable and immovable property, as well as public funds allocated to political parties by the state, entities, cantons, the Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina, cities, or municipalities.
Public official is any person performing a legislative, executive, administrative, prosecutorial, or judicial function, whether appointed or elected, whether the function is permanent or temporary, paid or unpaid, regardless of the rank of that person;
any person performing a public function, including a function in a public body or public enterprise
performing public services
any other person defined in the legal system of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a public official, public servant, or state employee.
Corruption refers to any abuse of power entrusted to a public official or person in a political position at the state, entity, canton, Brčko District, municipal, or city level, which can lead to private gain. Corruption may particularly involve the direct or indirect requesting, offering, giving, or accepting of a bribe or any other illegal advantage or its possibility, which undermines the proper performance of any duty or behavior expected of the recipient of the bribe.
Coordination is the harmonious functioning of parts of a whole that produces effective results. In an organizational and managerial sense, coordination represents the management activity of individuals, interdependent organizations, or parts of an organization.
Cronyism refers to appointing or assigning prominent positions to friends, regardless of their qualifications for those positions.
Morality is a set of unwritten rules and customs that establish interpersonal relationships and judge what is good and what is evil. Morality is something objective, a form of social consciousness, a system of customs, habits, and norms. It is a societal demand for certain behavior, or principles that determine how something should be. It is relative and not the same in all social groups and historical periods. The central values of morality are: good, right, and just. Morality relies on the world and the awareness of the individual, and as sanctions for immoral behavior, guilt, reproach, or social boycott arise. Good is the highest moral value. It is a human trait that corresponds to being human. Humanity is the duty of every individual, a condition for a good life. This includes cooperation with other people, dialogue, love, and respect for the dignity of the person.
Nepotism is the term used to describe filling jobs with family members or giving preference to acquaintances when hiring. The criterion of professional or personal ability for a specific function does not play a decisive role in this case.
Prevention refers to the totality of planned, organized, and undertaken measures and activities aimed at eliminating or reducing the direct and indirect causes of corrupt behavior. Prevention is divided into situational and social. Situational prevention aims to eliminate situations in which corruption occurs, while social prevention is part of an overall development strategy and includes social, economic, legal, educational, and other policy measures, i.e., the involvement of the entire society in reducing this phenomenon. The primary goal of prevention is to prevent corruption. Although it is extremely important, sanctioning corrupt public officials after they have committed corruption ("ex post") is a reactive strategy that is implemented after the harm is done, or after the act of corruption becomes a fact. Therefore, it is most important to establish adequate anti-corruption prevention programs that ensure education and professional training for all to protect society and minimize the effects of corruption.
Conflict of interestis a situation in which elected officials, holders of executive duties, advisors, and/or other officials with public authority have a private interest that affects or could affect the legality, transparency, objectivity, and impartiality in performing public duties, or in which private interest harms or could harm the public interest.