What has been the effect of adoption of the OECD Convention?
Heimann: Following adoption of the OECD Convention in 1997, each of the 37 countries that became parties to the convention amended their laws to make foreign bribery a crime just like the FCPA did in the U.S. Most importantly, the OECD Convention provided for a follow-up monitoring program to promote compliance. OECD’s Working Group on Bribery, the same people who had written the convention, became the monitors. First, they reviewed the laws passed by each country to make sure that they included all the requirements of the convention. In a second phase, they sent teams to each country to review the actual enforcement procedures. TI’s national chapters have been actively involved in the OECD monitoring reviews in their respective countries. TI publishes an annual report on the state of enforcement in OECD countries. We had urged OECD to do this, and for various reasons they said “No, why doesn’t TI do it?” So we assumed that responsibility. This year we are publishing the fourth of thes
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