The assets declaration system in the Algerian law

Abstract EN

The Algerian Legislator obligated the public official to declare his property to prevent corruption in the public sector, especially since the official's status is the presumed element of corruption offences.

The Algerian Legislator has previously regulated this duty according to the abrogated Ordinance No.

97-04, and regulated the same again in the Law on Preventing and Combating Corruption, as it subjected a group of people to the duty to disclose their financial liabilities.

However, there is also a category of officials not stipulated in the same law, left for the regulation; whereupon we are required to define the status of the officials who are obligated to declare their assets.

Considering the duty of assets declaration in support of the anti-corruption process and in implementation of the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Corruption which aims at achieving the most important goals of which are enhancing transparency in political and administrative life and protecting public property, this procedure was subjected to principles and strict legal rules, hence, the need to study the procedural nature which regulates the duty to declare assets