CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE _____________________________________________________________________ denunciation of, and the fight against, practices resulting in corruption and financial crime within the administration. 308. The ASCE. This new structure integrates the functions of the General Finance Inspectorate (IGF), the HACLC and some of the functions of the CNLF. The aims of the new structure are: to control all public services of the state, local governments and public institutions of any national body vested with a public service mission; to ensure observance of laws and regulations that govern the administrative, financial and accounting operation; to study the quality of operations and management services; to propose any measures that would enhance the quality of public administration; to monitor the implementation of the recommendations of the control structures; to set in motion the actions of justice; to ensure the monitoring of the implementation of national policies to combat fraud and corruption; and to coordinate actions within this framework. Its objective is to streamline the supervisory bodies and strengthen their authority and their powers of action. 309. Parliament. Article 84 of the constitution enshrines the power of control of governmental action by Parliament. The latter may, for this purpose, establish a commission of inquiry on the conditions specified in the Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly. It must be recognised that the government has the means of extinguishing the parliamentary action, since, according to the provisions of Article 136 of the Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly, as long as the minister of justice is in the process of opening a criminal investigation into any case or matter for which a commission of inquiry should be established, or has already been established, the creation process is considered completed if it is under way and, if the commission has already been established, it is dissolved immediately. 310. Finally, it should be noted that the High Court of Justice, as the competent jurisdiction to hear any wrongdoing committed by political officials in the exercise of their duties, has remained inactive so far because it is not effective in this respect. Civil society 311. The structures of civil society comprise either specialised agencies established to fight corruption, such as RENLAC, or occasional intervention structures, such as movements of the Association of Human Rights, or trade unions and the media. Established in 1997, RENLAC brings together some 30 CSOs. Its main objective is to work towards the entrenchment of good morality and transparency in the management of affairs. Efficiency in the fight against corruption 312. According to the HACLC, between 1993 and 2003 the IGF handled 76 cases, and the IGE handled 26 cases. Both institutions have provided the HACLC with the raw material. Thus, the latter dealt with 102 cases. The HACLC selected 40 relevant files, but only 10 were stigmatised in its report (so states a 139