The OECD Convention on Bribery

This book provides an in-depth analysis of how states have stepped up their anti-bribery enforcement efforts in the recent past.

This article-by-article commentary on the 1997 OECD Convention (which introduced criminal liability for individuals and companies who bribe foreign officials to win business) uses OECD evaluation reports to provide a comparative analysis of bribery legislation in forty countries. The editors and authors include practitioners and criminal law academics.The OECD Convention on Bribery established an international standard for compliance with anti-corruption rules, and has subsequently been adopted by the thirty-four OECD members and six non-member countries. As a result of the Convention and national implementation laws, companies and managers now risk tough sanctions if they are caught bribing foreign officials. The UK Bribery Act 2010 is only one example of this development. The second edition of this, the only commentary on the Convention, provides law practitioners, company lawyers and academic researchers with comprehensive guidance on the OECD standards. It includes case examples as well as the FCPA Resource Guide 2012 and the 2009 OECD Recommendation for Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials with Annexes I and II.