Treatises and Guides - Online
- Bloomberg Law Transactional Intelligence CenterBloomberg BNA FCPA portfolios and books.
Text of Convention
- Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and Related Documents byPublication Date: 2011Includes the official text of and commentaries on the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the 2009 Recommendation of the Council for Further Combating Bribery, the 2009 Recommendation on the Tax Deductibility of Bribes to Foreign Public Officials, and other related documents.
Entry into Force
- OECD Anti-Bribery Convention: Entry into Force of the Convention byProvides a short discussion of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention’s entry into force.
Status of Ratification
- OECD Anti-Bribery Convention: Status of Ratification byList of countries that have ratified the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and enacted legislation to implement it.
Country Reports
- Country Reports on the Implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention byIncludes links to reports on countries that have implemented the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, countries’ implementing legislation, and information on steps taken by countries to ratify and implement the convention.
- Exporting Corruption? Country Enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, Progress Report 2012 byPublication Date: 2012This document is the eighth annual progress report on signatory countries’ enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.
US Implementation
- International Agreements Relating to Bribery of Foreign Officials byScroll down to the heading Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Includes links to a report on the steps taken by the United States to ratify and implement the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, reports and related materials from the OECD’s review of the United States’ implementation of the convention, and other related materials.
OECD and Tax Matters
- OECD Bribery Awareness Handbook for Tax Examiners 2009 byPublication Date: 2009A handbook designed to provide tax examiners with information on bribery techniques and tools for detecting and identifying bribery.
Additional OECD Resources
- OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions byIncludes links to other OECD resources on the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.
Selected Law Journal Articles
- H. Lowell Brown, Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Under the 1998 Amendments to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Does the Government’s Reach Now Exceed its Grasp?, 26 N.C. J. Int’l L. & Com. Reg. 239 (2001)
- Christopher F. Corr & Judd Lawler, Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t? The OECD Convention and the Globalization of Anti-Bribery Measures, 32 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 1249 (1999)
- Eric Engle, I Get By With a Little Help from My Friends? Understanding the U.K. Anti-Bribery Statute, By Reference to the OECD Convention and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 44 Int'l Law. 1173 (2010).
Selected Law Firm Memoranda, Reports, and Other Publications
- Norton RoseThis report summarizes Transparency International’s Exporting Corruption? Country Enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, Progress Report 2018.
Treatises and Guides - Print
Chapter VII of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the New International Norms by Call Number: KF9351 .D46 2010ISBN: 9781604426045Provides an overview of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (OECD Anti-Bribery Convention), current and emerging issues under it, and the status of its implementation and enforcement.
Corruption: A Glossary of International Standards for Criminalisation of Corruption by Call Number: K5261 .O74 2008ISBN: 9789264027404Publication Date: 2008Describes the major elements of bribery as a criminal act under the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the Council of Europe’s Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, and the United Nations Convention against Corruption; addresses how the conventions can be introduced into national legislation; and gives practical guidance for monitoring countries’ compliance with and raising awareness of these conventions.
