
<p>A large number of the measures were taken, the more significant of which include: giving independence to the State Committee for Appeals regarding public procurements, whose members are now elected from the Parliament instead of the government, as was previously the case; acquiring an independent legal status of the Public Procurements Bureau, which has up until recently worked as part of the Ministry of Finance; starting the initiative for decreasing the bureaucratic procedures;  providing legal protection for the students who report corruption; a more fierce fight against the construction mafia etc. The project was financially supported by the Balkan Trust for Democracy.</p>