OECD reports that Austria has made important progress in the enforcement of the foreign bribery offence but it must improve its framework for the implementation of the Anti-Bribery Convention

The Working Group recommends that, among other things, Austria: clarify interpretative issues related to the foreign bribery offence and the corporate liability regime, address a concern regarding the statute of limitations to allow adequate time for investigation and prosecution, proactively pursue criminal charges against legal persons, urgently take meaningful steps to revise the current framework to shield prosecutors from undue interference prohibited under Article 5 of the Anti-Bribery Convention…