Morocco to Introduce Asset Declaration Law for Top Government Officials

Among the draft laws on the agenda for the parliamentary session in October are those on the mandatory declaration of assets for senior state officials and on the Public Service Charter.

The first, relating to the mandatory declaration of assets, will be framed by a law of about twenty articles presented in six chapters concerning the general conditions of this declaration, its procedures, the identification of the officials concerned, their monitoring and, possibly, the penalties in case of false declaration, reports the daily Assabah.

Under the 2011 Constitution, it is up to the Court of Auditors to first verify the authenticity of asset declarations, including their verification and monitoring for all elected officials and civil servants in various positions of public responsibility, indicates the same source.

As for the Public Service Charter, it defines a number of criteria and principles that civil servants, auxiliaries and users of the public service will be called upon to respect. These include the spirit of responsibility, initiative, neutrality, objectivity but above all the refusal of any gift, any gift or other objects, in return for a service rendered.

In addition, a Public Service Observatory will be created within the Government. Its objective will be to evaluate, through an annual report, the effectiveness or not of these public services, the quality of their services and above all their mode of governance, details the same source.