Transparency and Anti-Bribery Initiatives

I. Articles and Speeches

What the U.S. Government Can Do to Assist U.S. Companies with Respect to Transnational Corruption (Speech at American Bar Association, October 2006)

International Enforcement of the OECD Antibribery Convention (Federal Ethics Report, March 2005)

Remarks by former Secretary of Commerce Secretary Don Evans: Third Annual Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity (May 31, 2003) (Seoul, Korea)

II. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

A summary of the Anti-Bribery Provisions of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - U.S. Departments of Commerce and Justice, http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/docs/dojdocb.html

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act- U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Fraud Section, http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa/

Bibliography: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and International Corruption

Unofficial FCPA Translations

Below are links to unofficial translations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian. The goal of providing these unofficial translations is to increase the general awareness and understanding of the FCPA by U.S. exporters and their trading partners. For particular FCPA compliance questions relating to specific conduct, you should seek the advice of counsel as well as consider using the Department of Justice’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Opinion Procedure, found at http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa/opinion/frgncrpt.html. Only the official, English-language version of the statute, found at http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/docs/statute.html, should be relied upon for such purposes.

U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – Russian Translation (unofficial)

U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – Arabic Translation (unofficial)

U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – Chinese Translation (unofficial)

U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – Spanish Translation (unofficial)

III. Anticorruption Resources 

Department of Commerce -- Good Governance Office, http://www.ita.doc.gov/goodgovernance/

State Department brochure,  Fighting Global Corruption: Business Risk Management

United Nations Global Compact - Principle 10 Against Corruption, http://www.unglobalcompact.org/AboutTheGC/TheTenPrinciples/anti-corruption.html

Transparency International – USA, http://www.transparency-usa.org/home.htm

Transparency International - Business Principles for Countering Bribery, http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/private_sector/business_principles

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – Anticorruption Activities, http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/anticorruption/

The World Economic Forum Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI), http://www.weforum.org/paci

IV. International Conventions and Initiatives

OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (text, commentaries, and related instruments) http://www.oecd.org/document/21/0,2340,fr_2649_34859_2017813_1_1_1_1,00.html

Department of Commerce Annual Reports to Congress under Section 6 of the International Anti-Bribery and Fair Competition Act of 1998, http://tcc.export.gov/Bribery/Yearly_Antibribery_Reports/index.asp

United Nations Convention against Corruption and related documents, http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/CAC/index.html

Inter-American Convention against Corruption, http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/FightCur.html

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation: Anticorruption, http://www.apec.org/apec/apec_groups/som_committee_on_economic/som_special_task_groups/anti-corruption.html

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