Russia will become the 39th Party to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention on 17 April 2012, 60 days after submitting its instrument of accession.

This report provides a brief overview of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and how it works. It also outlines how the Working Group on Bribery contributes to the global fight against corruption.

This Glossary explains the key elements required to classify corruption as a criminal act, according to three major international conventions: (i) the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions; (ii) the Council of Europe’s Criminal Law Co

This study provides a systematic analysis of the existing practice in the area of asset declarations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and in some OECD member states in Western Europe and North America.

The Course of Action sets out a number of specific and concrete steps that the countries in the region will endeavour to undertake in their anti-bribery and business integrity efforts, and will serve as the main basis for future work of the Initiative.

Each country to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention regularly reports on monitoring and implementation efforts, which contain recommendations formed from rigorous peer-examinations of each country.

The OECD Good Practice Guidance is addressed to companies for establishing and ensuring the effectiveness of internal controls, ethics, and compliance programmes or measures for preventing and detecting the bribery of foreign public officials in their international business transactions.

The OECD Recommendation for Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials was adopted by the OECD in order to enhance the ability of the 40 States Parties to the Anti-Bribery Convention to prevent, detect and investigate allegations of foreign bribery.

The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention establishes legally binding standards to criminalise bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions and provides for a host of related measures that make this effective.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has released a working paper which argues that, while there is a clear need to better protect retirement income from financial market volatility, the costs and benefits of investment return guarantees should be carefully evaluated.