Action against corruption

Invites Member States to examine the adequacy of their domestic legal regimes, with a view, where necessary: (a) to strengthening national laws and regulations in order to criminalize corruption in all its forms; (b) to improving the transparency, vigilance and monitoring of financial transactions and limiting bank and professional secrecy in cases involving criminal investigation; (c) to promoting both inter-agency coordination and international administrative and judicial cooperation; (d) to enacting legislation and establishing programmes promoting the full involvement of civil society in efforts to fight corruption; (e) to provide for the possibility of providing extradition and mutual assistance in cases involving corruption or money-laundering; stresses the need to develop a global strategy to strengthen international cooperation aimed at the prevention and punishment of corruption by: (a) encouraging Member States to become parties to and to implement the terms of relevant international conventions aimed at fighting corruption; (b) inviting Member States to participate in conferences and other forums for the advancement of international efforts against corruption; (c) also inviting Member States to explore the posibilities of developing a global system for peer review regarding the adequacy of practices aimed at combating corruption; directs the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime to incorporate into the draft Convention measures against corruption linked to organized crime; requests the Ad Hoc Committee to explore the desirability of an international instrument against corruption to be developed after the finalization of the Convention

Adopted without vote, 83rd meeting

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Adopted at the 83rd plenary meeting, 17 Dec. 1999.