Existence of Convention is a Success but a true Victory against Bribery Requires Full Implementation
As Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi and OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría host officials from across the world to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in Rome today, Transparency International (TI) joins in recognising the importance of this Convention. TI also called for strong measures to ensure that the majority of signatory countries finally start to enforce the Convention, noting that there are 37 signatory governments to the OECD Convention, but substantial compliance has only been achieved by 14 of them.
“This has been the most important and groundbreaking international convention aimed at curbing the bribery of foreign government officials by multinational corporations and it is a success to have it,” said TI Chair Huguette Labelle. She stressed, “We need to use this tenth anniversary to urge the more than 20 countries with little or no implementation to take action. Victory will come only with full implementation.”
Labelle’s comments reflect the concerns of TI’s global movement with national chapters in almost 100 countries. During its annual membership meeting held in late October, the TI movement adopted a resolution stating that the future of the OECD Convention is in doubt due to a serious lack of political commitment by over half the signatory governments.
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