ANTICORRUPTION POLICIES UNDER EU CONDITIONALITY APPROACH AND ITS ROLE MODEL: THE“REFRAIN” OF TRACK RECORDS FOR ALBANIA NEGOTIATIONS TOWARDS EU MEMBERSHIP The fight against corruption has a central place in the EU’s internal and external policies. It forms part of the EU acquis where are included preventive actions, criminalisation, freezing, confiscation and recovery of assets, international cooperation which are considered the key elements of any strategy to tackle corruption. The Albania –EU negotiation process is centred around the fight against corruption which itself can’t be measured only by number of adopted laws and strategic framework All EU Member States are subject to monitoring and evaluation at the international level by the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption(GRECO) and in the context of the UN Convention Against Corruption(UNCAC). Most of the Member States are also monitored by the OECD(Anti-Bribery Convention). In 2011, the Commission introduced a specific EU reporting mechanism, based on which one EU Anti-Corruption Report was presented in 2014. P32F P 33 The EU anti-corruption reporting mechanism was discontinued by the Commission in 2017. As a result, the only EU framework for assessing the effectiveness of anti-corruption efforts in the Member States is currently the European Semester of economic governance. Sharing good practices is a corner stone of our work at EU level and in 2015, the Commission launched an EU anti-corruption experience-sharing programme. This offers anti-corruption practitioners a forum to seek inspiration from legislative, institutional and policy reforms in other Member States. The format is open and collaborative, allowing for a frank exchange on successful measures, but also on challenges and obstacles in effectively setting these in place Meanwhile the 2018 reform of EU rules against money laundering delivered fundamental enhancement to the EU framework by setting up beneficial ownership registries of companies and other legal arrangements, setting up central registries of bank account information, enhancing supervisory cooperation and broadening the criteria for listing high-risk third countries. One of the key actions within the framework of anticorruption policy has been The EU rules against money laundering have also been recently reinforced to better address issues of beneficial ownership and due diligence. 33 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=celex%3A52014DC0038 19