International Anti-Corruption Commitments

Title of the document

G7 Action to Fight Corruption

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Issuing body

G7

Brief description

The Action depicts commitment by G7 countries to lead by example in moving the global anti-corruption agenda forward.

Relevant excerpts

1 Enhancing Prevention of Corruption in Public Procurement and Enhancing Fiscal Transparency

Recognizing that public procurement is highly vulnerable to corruption and requires a range of tools and approaches to prevent it as recognized also in the G20 Principles for Promoting Integrity in Public Procurement and the OECD Principles for Enhancing Integrity in Public Procurement, we will promote open, accountable, fair, and effective public procurement to prevent corruption, especially through:

(a) Publishing contracting data for national public procurement across the contracting cycle in machine-readable format, consistent with domestic laws and regulations and, where possible, principles of open data standards such as the G8 Open Data Charter and the G20 Anti-Corruption Open Data Principles.

(b) Enhancing transparency in the entire public procurement process, conscious of the corruption risk in infrastructure related public procurement in terms of its complex process as well as its scale.

(c) Promoting audit institutional capacity and effective audit of the performance of public procurement contracts.

(d) Demonstrating our commitment to fiscal transparency. We stress the key role that could be played by IMF Fiscal Transparency Evaluations and all other equivalent standards.