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| C.I.C.C. : Article III : Preventive measures |
For the purposes set forth in Article II of
this Convention, the States Parties agree to consider the applicability
of measures within their own institutional systems to create, maintain
and strengthen:
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- Standards of conduct for the correct,
honorable, and proper fulfillment of public functions. These standards
shall be intended to prevent conflicts of interest and mandate
the proper conservation and use of resources entrusted to government
officials in the performance of their functions. These standards
shall also establish measures and systems requiring government
officials to report to appropriate authorities acts of corruption
in the performance of public functions. Such measures should help
preserve the public's confidence in the integrity of public servants
and government processes. (See Ethics
Codes)
- Mechanisms to enforce these standards
of conduct. (See Ethics Codes)
- Instruction to government personnel
to ensure proper understanding of their responsibilities and the
ethical rules governing their activities. (See Ethics
Codes)
- Systems for registering the income,
assets and liabilities of persons who perform public functions
in certain posts as specified by law and, where appropriate, for
making such registrations public. (See Ethics
Codes)
- Systems of government hiring and procurement
of goods and services that assure the openness, equity and efficiency
of such systems.
- Government revenue collection and control
systems that deter corruption.
- Laws that deny favorable tax treatment
for any individual or corporation for expenditures made in violation
of the anticorruption laws of the States Parties.
- Systems for protecting
public servants and private citizens who, in good faith, report
acts of corruption, including protection of their identities,
in accordance with their Constitutions and the basic principles
of their domestic legal systems. (See Whistleblower_Protection)
- Oversight bodies with a view to implementing
modern mechanisms for preventing, detecting, punishing and eradicating
corrupt acts. (See Control Systems)
- Deterrents to the bribery of domestic
and foreign government officials, such as mechanisms to ensure
that publicly held companies and other types of associations maintain
books and records which, in reasonable detail, accurately reflect
the acquisition and disposition of assets, and have sufficient
internal accounting controls to enable their officers to detect
corrupt acts. (See Transnational
Bribery)
- Mechanisms to encourage participation
by civil society and nongovernmental organizations in efforts
to prevent corruption.
- The study of further preventive measures
that take into account the relationship between equitable compensation
and probity in public service.
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