The Inspectorate under Art. 46 of the Administration Act is directly subordinate to the President for exercising administrative supervision over the activity within the NSI.

The Inspectorate's activity is aimed at fully and accurately clarifying the checked cases and proposing measures for their solution in order to:

1. prevention and elimination of violations in the functioning of the administration;

2. independent and objective assessment of the activities of the administration;

3. improvement of the performance of the administration.

The Inspectorate carries out its activity according to internal rules, approved by the President of the NSI.

The Inspectorate shall:

1. perform planned and unplanned inspections of structures, activities and processes in the administration;

2. evaluate the risk of corruption and propose measures for its limitation;

3. collect and analyze information and carry out inspections to identify violations, cases of corruption and ineffective work of administration;

4. inspect for the observance of the laws, secondary and internal institutional regulations for the organization of work of the administration officials;

5. may propose institution of disciplinary proceedings in case of established violations of official duties as well as of the Code of Conduct of the State Administration Civil Servants;

6. carry out inspections of signals against illegal or improper actions or inactions of the administration officials;

7. supervise and carry out inspections under the Anti-Corruption;

8. draw up acts for administrative violations in cases of established violations by the administration officials, where provided by law;

9. send alerts to the prosecution authorities when in checks it finds evidence of a crime;

10. make proposals for preparation of new internal regulations regulating the organization of work and the activity of the administration or make proposals for amendments to them;

11. perform inspections of the provision of administrative services;

12. perform other functions related to administrative supervision arising from legal acts or assigned by the President.

The Inspectorate shall exercise administrative control over the activity of the Second Level Spending Units within the NSI system.

The Inspectorate shall prepare a Strategic plan and an Annual plan on the activity, which shall be approved by the President of the NSI.

Annually the Inspectorate shall present its Annual report on the activity to the President of the NSI.

Annually the Inspectorate shall send, until March 1st, to the Chief Inspectorate report on the inspections under para. 4 in the previous year.

The Inspectorate does not carry out checks on budgetary discipline.