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EC announces stronger rules to fight corruption in the EU and worldwide
The measures include new and strengthened rules criminalising corruption offences and harmonising penalties across the EU, as well as a proposal to establish a dedicated Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) sanctions regime to target serious acts of corruption...
EC Handbook of good practices in the fight against corruption
To aid Member States, practitioners, researchers and civil society, the European Commission publishes a Handbook of good practices in the fight against corruption. The goal is to map a variety of anti-corruption practices in EU Member States that have proved to be useful in...
GRECO 5th round evaluation report on Ireland
GRECO calls on Ireland to pursue its efforts to prevent corruption in respect of persons with top Government executive functions and the police. It calls for codes of conduct in respect of persons with top government functions to cover conflicts of interest, lobbying...
GRECO Fourth Round 3rd Interim Compliance Report on Romania
The report assesses Romania’s Progress in Anti-Corruption measures in respect of MPs, Judges And Prosecutors. It stresses that the transparency of the parliamentary process needs further improvements, and that the use of urgent procedures should be reduced...
GRECO Fifth Evaluation Round Report on Bulgaria
GRECO stresses the need to strengthen the operational independence of the Police from political influence. A comprehensive mapping of corruption risks in various police structures is called for, and a dedicated anti-corruption strategy should be put in place...
OECD publishes phase 4 monitoring report on Spain’s implementation of the Anti-Bribery Convention
The Phase 4 looks at the evaluated country’s particular challenges and positive achievements. It also explores issues such as detection, enforcement, corporate liability and international cooperation, as well as covering unresolved issues from prior reports.
OCCRP on Beneficial Ownership data
Publicly available beneficial ownership registries are a key tool for exposing corruption and financial crimes like ML. In what OCCRP dubbed the “OpenLux” project, members and partners used this data to uncover secret Luxembourg companies used...
Global Witness on what BP could do with its £580m wartime Russian oil profits
BP told Global Witness that it ‘would not recognise this dividend as income’ and that under Russian regulations, payments would be made to ‘’a specific restricted Russian bank account, the contents of which could not be transferred outside Russia...
Implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in Portugal
OECD Working Group on Bribery states that Portugal needs to urgently step up its foreign bribery enforcement. The report also explores issues such as detection, corporate liability, and international cooperation, as well as covering unresolved issues...
EBA on fraud reporting under PSD
EBA has adopted a decision on the reporting by competent authorities of payment fraud data under the Payment Services Directive (PSD2), via the European Centralised Infrastructure of Data (EUCLID) and according to the EBA Data Point Model (DPM)...
EU on the fight against VAT fraud
The EU Council authorised the opening of negotiations with Norway to strengthen the agreement between the EU and Norway on administrative cooperation, combating fraud and recovery of value added tax (VAT) claims...
GRECO on transparency and accountability of lobbying
European governments should increase transparency and accountability around lobbying to ensure that members of the public know which actors are seeking to influence political decisions so that the risk of corrupt practices can be reduced...