SADC Protocol against Corruption (2001)

  1. Introduction
  2. Anti-Corruption Agencies and Supreme Audit Institutions
  3. Access to Information
  4. Asset Recovery and International Cooperation
  5. Business Integrity
  6. Foreign Bribery and Lobbying
  7. Illicit finance
  8. Protection of whistleblowers
  9. Public Integrity
  10. Tax-related Measures
  11. Other themes

Title of the document

SADC Protocol against Corruption

(https://www.sadc.int/documents...)

Issuing body

Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)

Brief description

The Protocol aims to promote and strengthen the development, within each Member State, of mechanisms needed to prevent, detect, punish and eradicate corruption in the public and private sector.

Relevant excerpts

Article 6: Acts of corruption relating to an official of a foreign states

1. Subject to its domestic law, each State Party shall prohibit and punish the offering or granting, directly or indirectly, by its own nations, persons having their habitual residence in its territory, and businesses domiciled there, to an official of a foreign State, or any article of monetary value, or other benefit, such as a gift, favour, promise or advantage, in connection with any economic or commercial transaction in exchange for any act or omission in the performance of that official's public functions.

2 Among those States Parties that have established the offence referred to in paragraph 1, such offence shall be considered an act of corruption for the purposes of this Protocol and any State Party that has not established such an offence shall, in so far as its laws permit, provide assistance and cooperation with respect to this offence as provided in the Protocol

Chapters

  1. Introduction
  2. Anti-Corruption Agencies and Supreme Audit Institutions
  3. Access to Information
  4. Asset Recovery and International Cooperation
  5. Business Integrity
  6. Foreign Bribery and Lobbying
  7. Illicit finance
  8. Protection of whistleblowers
  9. Public Integrity
  10. Tax-related Measures
  11. Other themes

Author

Jorum Duri

Date

09/06/2021

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