57. 根据《联合国反腐败公约》第三十六条，缔约国承诺确保设有一个或多个机构或者安排了人员专职负责通过执法打击腐败。拉脱维亚介绍了其预防和打击腐败局所做的工作。它强调，该局的任务是监督政治组织(政党)和相关协会遵守财务条例的情况，并检查遵守具体限制的情况。该局还确保遵守一般法律原则、人权、公众参与和获取关于行政、政策和立法举措的信息。为了确保民间社会的参与，该局局长设立了一个公共咨询委员会，有 20 个民间社会组织的代表参与。
57. Under article 36 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, States parties have committed themselves to ensuring the existence of a body or bodies or persons specialized in combating corruption through law enforcement. Latvia shared information on the work done by its Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau. It highlighted that the Bureau was tasked with monitoring the compliance of political organizations (parties) and related associations with financial regulations and with inspecting compliance with specific restrictions. The Bureau also ensured compliance with general principles of law, human rights, public participation and access to information on administrative, policy and legislative initiatives. In order to ensure the involvement of civil society, the Director of the Bureau had established a public consultative council in which 20 civil society organizations were represented.