Financial Risk:
Moderate
Score:
51/100
Asset Disposals
Q24
17/100
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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According to our sources, there is a legal mechanism that clearly defines the mechanism of asset disposal of the MoD. However, there is no…
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According to our sources, there is no mechanism to make asset disposal publicly available through any kind of channel. However, occasionally the Ministry of…
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According to our sources, there is no public information, or any information in the budget of the MoD, concerning the asset disposal. The revenue…
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Q25
67/100
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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According to our sources, there is a very clear and defined monitoring and follow-up mechanism for more than one institution (Ministry of Finance, MoD,…
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According to our sources, neither the executive nor the military has made any effort to unduly influence the process of asset disposal or the…
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According to our sources, there are no auditing reports of asset disposal made public and available. (1,2)This is because most of the reports are…
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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 very little publicly available data on Tunisia’s defence budget, and no information that touches upon secret items within the budget breakdown.
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Q27
0/100
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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According to our sources, the Parliament has the power to ask for information on secret items and defence purchases. However, there has not been…
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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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According to our sources, the Parliament did not recieve any reports about the annual accounts and detailed expenses on the intelliegence services or on…
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According to our sources, the legislative discussion on auditing reports is either very limited or is non-existent. At present the military and security issues…
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Q29
100/100
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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According to our sources, off-budget military expenditure in the last five years does not exist. It is forbidden by law and also it does…
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This indicator is marked Not Applicable because all the expenses of the Ministry of Defence are recorded in the Ministry of Defence’s budget documents…
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There are no off-budget military expenditures, such practices are strictly forbidden by the rules of public accounting which also apply to defence expenditures (1,2).…
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Q30
75/100
Are mechanisms for accessing information from the defence sector effective?
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The right of access to information is guaranteed by the constitution which provides that the state shall guarantee the right to information and the…
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This indicator is not scored. Law n°88-95, dated 2 August 1988, on archives, stipulates that exemptions to the obligation of the transfer of documents…
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No statistics were found about how the Ministry of Defence handles requests for access to information (1). When reviewing decisions of the authority of…
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Q31
100/100
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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According to our sources, the MoD and military own no commercial businesses or corporations that generate financial assets on large scale. The only semi-private…
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This indicator is marked Not Applicable because national defence institutions do not have any beneficial ownership of commercial businesses. According to our sources, any…
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Military-owned Businesses
Q32
100/100
Are military-owned businesses subject to transparent independent scrutiny at a recognised international standard?
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Q33
100/100
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?
View QuestionActual Military Spending
Q77
0/100
Is comprehensive data on actual spending on defence published during the budget year?
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According to our sources, there is no public detailed data on the actual military spendings. Although there are efforts to make budgets and financial…
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As there is no publicly available information on actual spend, this sub-indicator should be marked as Not Applicable.
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As there is no publicly available information on actual spend, this sub-indicator should be marked as Not Applicable.
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As there is no publicly available information on actual spend, this sub-indicator should be marked as Not Applicable.
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