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OAS MODEL LAW ON
SWORN STATEMENTS OF INTEREST DISCUSSED IN ARGENTINA
International Experts from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain,
the United States, and Mexico, as well as from the World Bank and the
OAS General Secretariat, gathered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to discuss
a draft model law on sworn statements of interest for those who exercise
public functions.
This event, which took
place on May 31 and June 1, 2011, forms part of a broader technical
cooperation program that the OAS General Secretariat, through the
Department of Legal Cooperation of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs,
has been developing with resources from the Government of Spain, in
order to promote the strengthening of the legal-institutional
instruments of the States that form part of the Follow-Up Mechanism of
the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC)
and international cooperation actions to confront corruption, within the
framework of that Mechanism.
At the meeting, the participants shared their technical and legal
knowledge, as well as experiences and best practices in the field from
their respective countries and organizations. Thanks to this first phase
of discussion and the contributions obtained throughout the event, the
draft model law will be enriched and will reflect important provisions
related to those persons obligated to report, including the terms,
deadlines, content and forms for the submission of statements, as well
as other provisions related to the procedures for verifying,
registering, safeguard and custody of statements and a regime of
administrative and criminal sanctions for noncompliance.
The new version of the draft model law will subsequently be disseminated
so that other national experts, and international and civil society
organizations that have interest in it, can give their opinion on its
content and thus contribute to its enrichment.
OAS PARTICIPATES IN PERMANENT FORUM OF
PROSECUTORS OF ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATIONS AND
ANTICORRUPTION OFFICE OF ARGENTINA
The General Secretariat of the OAS, through the
Department of Legal Cooperation of the
Secretariat for Legal Affairs, was invited to
participate in the opening session for the
training organized by the Permanent Forum of
Prosecutors of Administrative Investigations and
Anticorruption Offices of the Republic of
Argentina, which took place on June 1, 2011, in
Casa de la Provincia de Santa Fe, in Buenos
Aires.
 In
his remarks, Doctor Jorge García González,
Director of the Department of Legal Cooperation,
shared with the representatives of
anticorruption entities in Argentina and other
participants, OAS developments in hemispheric
cooperation against Corruption, principally
within the framework of the Inter-American
Convention against Corruption and the Follow-Up
Mechanism for its Implementation.
The Forum was created six years ago and
constitutes an institutional opportunity for the
existing entities in the Argentine provinces
that are focused, as specialized agencies, on
the development of anticorruption and
transparency policies, both in the field of
investigation as well as prevention, to meet.
Currently, the Forum is made up of the
Anticorruption Office of the Nation; the
Anticorruption Office of Chubut; the
Anticorruption and Public Ethics Office of Entre
Ríos; the Provincial Directorate for
Anticorruption and Transparency in the Public
Sector of Santa Fe; the Anticorruption Office of
the Municipality of Morón; the Prosecutor of
Administrative Investigations of the Nation; the
Prosecutor of Administrative Investigations of
La Pampa; Prosecutor of Administrative
Investigations of Río Negro; Prosecutor of
Administrative Investigations of Chaco; the
Prosecutor of the State of de Tierra del Fuego
and Islands of the South Atlantic; the
Directorate of Administrative Investigations of
the Municipality of Rosario; the Collection
Agency for the province of Buenos Aires (Arba);
the Anticorruption Office of la Matanza; and the
Sub-Directorate of Summaries and Administrative
Investigations of the city of Córdoba.
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Edition N° 55 - June 2011
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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