Organization of American States

August 23, 2002

THE OAS HOLDS A NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION
CONFERENCE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

A National Conference on “The Adjustment of the Dominican Criminal Legislation to the Inter-American Convention against Corruption” will take place  in Santo Domingo,  Dominican Republic,  on August 30, 2002,

The meeting is being organized in collaboration with the Department of Prevention of Administrative Corruption of the Attorney General Office; the Institutional and Justice Foundation (FINJUS); and the Pontifical Catholic University.

This National Conference is part of a hemispheric initiative of the Organization of American States (OAS), in compliance with  the mandates of the Summit of the Americas and of the OAS General Assembly aimed at promoting the adjustment of national criminal legislation to the provisions of the Convention and facilitate, as well, its application and implementation.

Participants  will examine a report prepared specifically for the meeting, and review  draft legislation that will serve as a foundation for the discussions of the Conference.

The cooperative initiative for the ratification and implementation of the Convention falls within the scope  of the program the Secretariat for Legal Affairs of the OAS  launched  in 1997 to implement and facilitate the effective application of this treaty in the Americas.

The Inter-American Convention against Corruption was adopted in Caracas, Venezuela, in March 1996 and entered into force a year later. To date it has been ratified by 27 out of the 34 active Member States.

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