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CANADA COMMUNICATES ITS CONSENT TO RECEIVE ON-SITE VISIT OF THE OAS
ANTICORRUPTION MECHANISM
Canada, through its
Permanent Mission to the OAS, formally notified its
consent to receive an on-site visit of the Mechanism for
Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption (MESICIC), as part of the
of the review process for the Fifth Round of Review.
This is the second time
that Canada has granted its consent to receive an
on-site visit from a team from the MESICIC.
The first visit took place
on October 16 – 18, 2013, during the Fourth Round of
Review of the Mechanism. The results of that visit form
part of the country report for
Canada adopted by the MESICIC
Committee of Experts in March 2014.
For the Fifth Round, which
is to begin shortly, the MESICIC will review, among
others, the progress made by the States with respect to
transparency in systems of government hiring and in the
procurement of goods and services, as well as in the
protection for those who, in good faith, report acts of
corruption. Implementation of other provisions of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption will
also be reviewed.
To date, in addition to
Canada, the following countries have formally expressed
their consent to receive on-site visits for the Fifth
Round: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia,
Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana,
Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay,
Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States
and Uruguay. The MESICIC Technical Secretariat expects
to receive similar notifications from other States,
which have reported that they are taking the necessary
steps domestically to formalize their consent.
The MESICIC is a cooperation mechanism between States, with the
participation of civil society organizations,
established within the framework of the OAS, in which
the legal/institutional framework of each country is
reviewed for suitability with the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption as well as the objective
results achieved therein. The incorporation of on-site
visits as a stage and integral part of the MESICIC
review process represents an innovative and pioneering
initiative in the context of the OAS, especially for a
peer review mechanism and the importance of the issues
it addresses.
For more information on
the MESICIC, please visit the Anti-Corruption
Portal of the Americas. |
Edition N° 223 - March 2015
The Mechanism For Follow-up on the
Implementation of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption, known as MESICIC for its Spanish acronym, is a tool to
support the development of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption through
cooperation between States Parties.
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