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The public perceives government officials as being ineffective, slow and corrupted, which can hardly be refuted. The fight against corruption is known to entail the use of repressive measures, but also prevention. One of the tools for preventing corruption is the adoption and implementation of Codes of Ethics in the public administration, but also in local and regional self-government bodies and the public sector in general. Ethics commissioners are appointed in all bodies of public administration. They monitor the implementation of the Code of Ethics for Civil Servants, promote ethical conduct in mutual relations of the civil servants and relations between civil servants and citizens. They receive complaints against unethical conduct and officials’ actions, conduct the proceedings of examining the merit of complaints and keep records on the received complaints. In this paper, we used data published on the web pages of the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration. The paper provides answers to two questions: 1. Did the implementation of the Code of Ethics for Civil Servants reduce the number of complaints against the performance and conduct of civil servants in the observed period, from 2018 to 2022?; 2. Did the number of sanctions for unethical conduct increase or decrease in the period from 2018 to 2022?

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