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OAS Anti-Corruption Mechanism to Conduct On-Site Visit to Ecuador

  August 21, 2013

A Commission from the Anti-Corruption Mechanism of the Organization of American States (OAS) - Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption - (MESICIC), will conduct, from October 1 to 3, an on-site visit to Ecuador with the consent of the host country, as part of the review process that the Mechanism is carrying out, inter pares, in accordance with the Methodology for Conducting On-Site Visits, adopted by its member states.

The Commission will be made up of representatives from Chile and Venezuela to the Mechanism with the support from the Department of Legal Cooperation of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs of the OAS, in its capacity as the Technical Secretariat of the MESICIC. Members of the Commission will meet in Quito with representatives from oversight bodies responsible for the control of corruption in Ecuador: the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Oversight (CPCCS), the Office of the Attorney General, Judicial Branch and Judicial Council and the Comptroller General’s Office, to be able to review first hand, objective and complete information for consideration of the national report, which will be adopted by the Committee of Experts of the MESICIC in a plenary meeting in March 2014.

The Commission plans to meet with Ecuadorian civil society, the private sector, professional associations and academics to seek to address the topics that are currently being reviewed in the Fourth Round of which is currently developed of the Mechanism.

To date, the countries that have received on-site visits, in order designated by the MESICIC, are: Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Honduras, Panama, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia and Guatemala.

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 represents an innovative and pioneering initiative of the OAS, which, with the support of the Technical Secretariat, has further strengthened this review process.

For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.

Reference: E-311/13