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OECD announces new transparency and anti-corruption initiative - clean.gov.biz
By TII News Service
Mar 04, 2011 , Paris |
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THE OECD
announced a new initiative to improve coordination of anti-corruption and
transparency initiatives - first within its member countries, and then with
all other relevant players, including governments, international organisations,
NGOs and the private sector.
“We are developing a new initiative, clean.gov.biz, that will improve
our own anti-corruption tools and reinforce their implementation,” OECD
Deputy Secretary-General Richard Boucher said. “We then want to strengthen
cooperation with all relevant players to ensure that our instruments complement
those of our partners.”
Mr. Boucher discussed the initiative during the March 2-3 meeting of the Extractive
Industries Transparency Initiative, hosted at the OECD, underlining how many
of its elements complement EITI work. EITI aims to improve natural resource
management and reduce corruption by encouraging oil, gas and mining companies
to publish the fees, royalties and taxes they pay and commiting governments
to transparency about what they receive.
The OECD is at the forefront of global anti-corruption efforts. In 2010, its
34 member countries and leading partners including Brazil and Russia agreed
to a Declaration on Propriety, Integrity and Transparency in the Conduct of
International Business and Finance. The Declaration is based on OECD instruments
including the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Entreprises, which since 1975
set standards for business behavior, and the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance,
which set out broad rules to guide business conduct.
The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention commits 38 signatory governments to establish
bribery of foreign public officials as a criminal offence. OECD work on public
procurement, public sector integrity, including on lobbying and conflicts of
interest, as well as budget transparency is at the core of the reform agenda
in a growing number of countries.
The OECD is also actively cooperating with the G20 in the implementation
of its Action Plan on Anti-Corruption, which includes initiatives on foreign
bribery, asset recovery, international cooperation, protection of whistle
blowers, government integrity and public-private partnerships in fighting
corruption.
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