68. Are elected officials required to submit reports regarding their finances?
Slovakia
GRECO FOURTH EVALUATION ROUND Corruption prevention in respect of members of parliament, judges and prosecutors. https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=09000016806ca488
Parliamentarians are to submit declarations of offices, employment positions, activities and economic standing within 30 days of assuming office and to annually indicate: (a) compliance with the previously mentioned provisions on incompatibilities with public office; (b) professions performed and public and business activities carried out concurrently with a deputy’s mandate; (c) offices held and income/benefits received in other state authorities, local and regional self-government bodies, bodies of legal persons, including those conducting business activities; (d) total income in the preceding year; and (e) “economic standing”, including that of a spouse and children (minors) living in the same household. “Economic standing” refers to: (1) ownership of immovable property, including apartments and non-residential premises; (2) ownership of movable property, the customary price of which exceeds 35-times the minimum wage (i.e. EUR 25 000); (3) ownership of proprietary rights or other proprietary value, the nominal value of which exceeds 35-times the minimum wage; and (4) liability, the object of which is
pecuniary delivery of the same nominal value as above.23 Appended to the declaration is
a copy of an annual tax return. Failure to comply with the above requirements is subject
to progressive fines and, ultimately, loss of mandate. Declarations are submitted to the
Committee on the Incompatibility of Functions and published on the Parliament’s website
without some personal details and data on the declarants’ economic standing.