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- 13 Aug 2012, 15:07
- The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation
In order to improve the efficiency of fighting against corruption including in the international scale, in the recent years the Russian Federation has made significant steps for the implementation of international anti-corruption standards into the domestic legislation.
As it is known, in 2006 Russia ratified two major international treaties on the issues of prevention of corruption, that is the UN Convention against corruption adopted in New York in 2003 and the Convention on criminal liability for corruption adopted in Strasbourg in 1999.
In connection with the ratification of the mentioned Conventions in respect of the Russian Federation, evaluation procedures are in the process at the present time.
The work on organising of passing of such procedure by the Group of States against corruption (GRECO) and implementation of obtained recommendations in the framework of the existing powers is entrusted to the General Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation.
In March of the current year the third round of GRECO evaluation was completed, that is implementation by the Russian Federation of the European Convention about criminal liability for corruption on the issues «the Criminalization of offensive acts» and «Transparency in financing of political parties». In the adopted, at the plenary meeting of GRECO in the city of Strasbourg (France), report there were expressed 9 recommendations on the first topic and 12 recommendations of the second theme addressed to the Russian Federation. According to the number and nature of expressed recommendations, general evaluations of the elements of the Russian system of counteractions to corruption the report in the whole is comparable to similar reports adopted by GRECO in respect of the developed European countries.
The stated recommendations are standard for GRECO and other international organizations with the anti-corruption theme (for example, OECD). Mostly they propose criminalisation of trading of influence like «proposal», «promise» and «request» about granting of an undue advantage, bribery of members of international parliamentary assemblies, judges and officials of international courts as well as national and foreign arbitrators, inclusion as subject of bribery and commercial bribery the improper advantage of non-property nature, dissemination of criminal responsibility for commercial bribery not only to the persons performing managerial functions in a commercial and other organizations but also to ordinary employees.
By the order of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in June 2012 there were approved with the concerned departments the coordinated plans of measures on realization of the mentioned recommendations, the work on their implementation has already started.
The Prosecutor General's Office
of the Russian Federation
The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation
13 Aug 2012, 15:07
About the activity of the General Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation for cooperation with GRECO within the framework of the 3 round of evaluation on themes «the Criminalization of offensive acts»,«Transparency in financing of political parties»
In order to improve the efficiency of fighting against corruption including in the international scale, in the recent years the Russian Federation has made significant steps for the implementation of international anti-corruption standards into the domestic legislation.
As it is known, in 2006 Russia ratified two major international treaties on the issues of prevention of corruption, that is the UN Convention against corruption adopted in New York in 2003 and the Convention on criminal liability for corruption adopted in Strasbourg in 1999.
In connection with the ratification of the mentioned Conventions in respect of the Russian Federation, evaluation procedures are in the process at the present time.
The work on organising of passing of such procedure by the Group of States against corruption (GRECO) and implementation of obtained recommendations in the framework of the existing powers is entrusted to the General Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation.
In March of the current year the third round of GRECO evaluation was completed, that is implementation by the Russian Federation of the European Convention about criminal liability for corruption on the issues «the Criminalization of offensive acts» and «Transparency in financing of political parties». In the adopted, at the plenary meeting of GRECO in the city of Strasbourg (France), report there were expressed 9 recommendations on the first topic and 12 recommendations of the second theme addressed to the Russian Federation. According to the number and nature of expressed recommendations, general evaluations of the elements of the Russian system of counteractions to corruption the report in the whole is comparable to similar reports adopted by GRECO in respect of the developed European countries.
The stated recommendations are standard for GRECO and other international organizations with the anti-corruption theme (for example, OECD). Mostly they propose criminalisation of trading of influence like «proposal», «promise» and «request» about granting of an undue advantage, bribery of members of international parliamentary assemblies, judges and officials of international courts as well as national and foreign arbitrators, inclusion as subject of bribery and commercial bribery the improper advantage of non-property nature, dissemination of criminal responsibility for commercial bribery not only to the persons performing managerial functions in a commercial and other organizations but also to ordinary employees.
By the order of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in June 2012 there were approved with the concerned departments the coordinated plans of measures on realization of the mentioned recommendations, the work on their implementation has already started.
