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  12/12/2017 - Corruption facilitates some of the most important global threats of our time, such as terrorism, climate change and the refugee crisis. It’s vital that we ramp up our fight to contain this threat…

The Working Group on Bribery (WGB) holds consultations with external stakeholders every year. These consultations provide an opportunity for the WGB to receive inputs from all the stakeholders that have an interest in its work…

‌‌‌‌‌‌Multi-stakeholder sport integrity taskforces established 15/12/2017 - The International Partnership against Corruption in Sport (IPACS) agrees to establish three taskforces to help tackle corruption in sport at its meeting at the…

The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention establishes standards to criminalise bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions. Full text and related documents All country reports  …

  18/12/2017 - Lithuania has taken significant steps to strengthen its legislative framework to combat foreign bribery. Yet further efforts are needed to ensure effective enforcement of anti-bribery laws with…

  19/12/2017 - The next review of Sweden’s implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, which was scheduled for October 2018, has been delayed until 2019. This is due to the fact that Sweden has not yet…

  19/12/2017 - Australia has stepped up its enforcement of foreign bribery since 2012, when the OECD Working Group on Bribery last evaluated Australia’s implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, with…

  22/03/2018 - Poland must make urgent progress on carrying out key recommendations of the OECD Working Group on Bribery that remain unimplemented, more than four years after its Phase 3 evaluation in June 2013.…

Download the pdf     27/03/2018 - Corruption raises the cost of business, undermines public trust and hampers growth. It disproportionately affects the poor and vulnerable by diverting resources from essential public services such as…

  27/03/2018 - The OECD Working Group on Bribery has just completed a review of Switzerland's enforcement of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions…

DATE OF PUBLICATION27 March 2018     Download the PDF   l   version française   Download the results to the OECD Survey on Investigative Journalism     27 March 2018 - The media and investigative journalism play a crucial role in…

17/02/2012 - Russia today took a major step toward upholding international anti-bribery standards by depositing its instrument of accession to the OECD Convention at a ceremony at the OECD in Paris. OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría…

  Deadline for submission: 15 June 2018   29/03/2018 - The OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct (WPRBC), is an intergovernmental body composed of representatives of all governments adhering to the…

The OECD-Latin America and Caribbean Anti-Corruption Initiative was established in 2007, with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Organization of American States (OAS), to promote the OECD Anti-Bribery…

  28/05/2018 - Peru is taking important steps toward fighting corruption and fostering greater transparency and exchange of information by completing the necessary steps to become a Party to the OECD Convention…

In November 2014 in line with the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the OECD and Ukraine, the OECD launched a country-specific project to support Ukraine in its anti-corruption agenda. The project aims to strengthen legal and…

  21/06/2018 - Germany continues to demonstrate a high level of anti-bribery enforcement having prosecuted and sanctioned 328 individuals and 18 companies in foreign bribery cases since 1999. Germany is commended…

Major summit staged in London as part of global fight against corruption in sports 06/12/2018 - More than 100 Ministers, international sports organisations and experts from around the world met in London today to reaffirm the global…

  19/10/2018 - Mexico needs to give more priority to foreign bribery enforcement, having yet to prosecute a case involving the bribery of foreign public officials 19 years after ratifying the OECD Anti-Bribery…

  22/10/2018 – Countries must step up work to ensure that tax authorities and anti-corruption authorities can effectively co-operate in the fight against tax evasion, bribery, and other forms of corruption,…

  19/11/2018 – Twenty-eight officials participated in the inaugural “VAT/GST Fraud Investigations” course at the OECD Latin America Academy for Tax and Financial Crime Investigation last week in Buenos Aires. The…

In 2022, the OECD Working Group on Bribery launched its fourth phase of monitoring the implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in Poland.   Call for written submissions To assist this evaluation process, the OECD calls for…

    The OECD Anti-Corruption Division is currently reviewing applications for interships starting in Summer/Fall 2022 The OECD Anti-Corruption Division offers short-term internships of 3-6 months for qualified students. These…

The OECD Working Group on Bribery (WGB) holds consultations with business, trade unions and civil society every year. These consultations provide an opportunity for the WGB to receive inputs from all the stakeholders that have an…

  The review is now completed and the 2021 OECD Anti-Bribery Recommendation, which supersedes the 2009 Recommendation, was adopted by the OECD Council on 26 November 2021 About the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention…