Financial Risk:
Critical
Score:
13/100
Asset Disposals
Q24
8/100
How effective are controls over the disposal of assets, and is information on these disposals, and the proceeds of their sale, transparent?
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There is a formalized process for public asset disposals, but it is not clear and has exemptions for defence and security assets. The inventory…
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There is no information publicly available about the process of asset disposal.
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There is little to no knowledge about the financial results of asset disposals.
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Q25
0/100
Is independent and transparent scrutiny of asset disposals conducted by defence establishments, and are the reports of such scrutiny publicly available?
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Generally, the inventory and disposal of public assets are regulated by the Law on Public Assets (Law 18/10 of August 6) (1). This explicitly…
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Undue influence by the military or the executive on asset disposal scrutiny is likely to be a common feature of asset disposals (1), (2).
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Audit reports on asset disposals are not available to the public (1), (2).
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Secret Budgets
Q26
0/100
What percentage of defence and security expenditure in the budget year is dedicated to spending on secret items relating to national security and the intelligence services?
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There is no publicly accessible information the budget for secret items relating to national security and the intelligence services For instance, the 2018 State…
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Q27
NEI/100
Is the legislature (or the appropriate legislative committee or members of the legislature) given full information for the budget year on the spending of all secret items relating to national security and military intelligence?
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This indicator has not been assigned a score due to insufficient information or evidence. There is no publicly accessible information the budget for secret…
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Q28
0/100
Are audit reports of the annual accounts of the security sector (the military and intelligence services) subject to parliamentary debate?
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No audit reports on the defence and security sector have been produced and submitted to parliament. The audit court is supposed to present annual…
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Since no audit reports on the defence and security sector have been submitted to Parliament, no debate has taken place. This indicator has thus…
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Q29
8/100
In law, are off-budget military expenditures permitted, and if so, are they exceptional occurrences that are well-controlled? In practice, are there any off-budget military expenditures? If so, does evidence suggest this involves illicit economic activity?
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Though the state budget does not account for in detail military and security expenses that are deemed secret, they are not entirely off-budget either.…
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Being under the sole responsibility of the president, the management of the “special security funds” of the presidency has effectively been shielded off from…
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There are indications that, apart from the lack of accountability over special security funds managed by the president, budget constraints due to the 2014…
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Q30
25/100
Are mechanisms for accessing information from the defence sector effective?
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The 2002 law on access to administrative documents regulates access to non-classified documents. “Internal and external security” related documents, or information that could be…
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This indicator is not assigned a score in the GDI. The 2002 State Secrecy Law establishes a system of classification of information (1).
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Despite relatively detailed laws that regulate access to administrative information and classification rules, defense sector related information is by and large restricted (1), (2).
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Q31
13/100
Do national defence and security institutions have beneficial ownership of commercial businesses? If so, how transparent are details of the operations and finances of such businesses?
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There is no available data to measure the extent of commercial ventures of defence institutions. According to its latest organic statute, since 2006 the…
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Although approved contracts by the company are commonly published in the official state gazette and sometimes publicized in the media, details are often not…
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Military-owned Businesses
Q32
25/100
Are military-owned businesses subject to transparent independent scrutiny at a recognised international standard?
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Q33
25/100
Is there evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by military or other defence ministry employees? If so, what is the government’s reaction to such enterprise?
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The 2010 Law on Public Probity, as well as previous legislation, explicitly prohibits public servants from receiving money or gifts from private business deals;…
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Senior military officials, including top officials of the president’s Security Bureau under Dos Santos, reportedly have declared or beneficial ownership in major private security…
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Actual Military Spending
Q77
25/100
Is comprehensive data on actual spending on defence published during the budget year?
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The Ministry of Finance publishes the budget online in a disaggregated form (1). The budget is accompanied by an explanation intended for experts; however,…
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The vast majority of actual spending is fully disclosed. For instance, spending in the 2018 Budget is divided into six sections: business activity, functions,…
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Details of actual spending are published more than twelve months after the end of the financial year. In fact, at the time of writing…
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The Year-End report for 2016 (Conta Geral Do Estado) was produced for internal use only (1).
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