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COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS OF THE OAS ANTI-CORRUPTION MECHANISM TO HOLD
ITS TWENTY-FIFTH MEETING
On Monday, March 16, 2015, at OAS Headquarters, the
Committee of Experts of the OAS Anti-Corruption
Mechanism (MESICIC) will begin its Twenty-Fifth Meeting,
in which the principal oversight bodies that address
corruption in Venezuela, the Bahamas, the United States,
Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis will be
comprehensively reviewed. These countries received
on-site visits in October 2014 by representatives of the
Mechanism as part of the review process.
As part of the agenda for this meeting, it is expected
that the experts will continue exchanging information on
legal developments, experiences and best practices with
respect to responsibility of the private sector in
preventing and combating corruption, with the aim of
identifying basic principles that may be incorporated
into national laws or legal framework. Within this
framework of topics of collective interest, the
Committee will have the opportunity to hear from the
Secretary of the Public Service of Mexico, Virgilio
Andrade Martinez, who will refer to the progress made by
the Mexican Government on anticorruption matters, as
well as presentations by Brazil and other States
regarding international cooperation on
non-criminal matters in the fight against corruption, as
a topic of collective interest.
Another important item on the agenda is the
consideration and adoption of the Hemispheric Report of
the Fourth Round, which summarizes the results of the
Round and allows for the clear identification of the
most commonly formulated recommendations, as well as the
progress achieved by the countries as a whole in the
implementation of the recommendations from the First
Round.
Similarly, during the meeting, decisions will be adopted
regarding the Fifth Round, during which preventive
measures regarding the relationship between equitable
compensation and probity in public service will be
reviewed.
These decisions will be related to the methodology for
the review; the questionnaire to gather information from
the countries; the structure of the country reports; the
sequence for the country reviews; the composition of the
review subgroups; and the schedule for the round.
It is important to note that the review process
of the Fifth Round will include on-site visits for the
countries that grant their consent.
The reports adopted by the Committee during the meeting
with respect to Venezuela, the Bahamas, the United
States, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis, as
well as the Fifth Round Hemispheric Report, will be made
available for download and consultation in the “Reports”
section of the Anti-Corruption Portal of the Americas.
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For more information on
the MESICIC, please visit the Anti-Corruption
Portal of the Americas. |
Edition N° 217 - 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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