Indicator 3. There is an unambiguous statutory rule stipulating that a civil servant following an unlawful or unethical order from a superior will be held individually accountable

In order to ensure that civil servants are made aware that following an improper superior order is prohibited, it is important to introduce an unambiguous statutory rule stipulating that a civil servant following such order will be held individually accountable.

Summary

Save for Albania, none of the analysed legal frameworks contain unambiguous rules stipulating that a civil servant following an improper superior order will be held individually accountable, although the existing normative solutions varies across the countries and some of them are event not internally consistent

Current state of play

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