Who has participated in revising the OECD Principles?
The revised Principles are the result of a wide-ranging consultation process that involved officials from both OECD and non-OECD countries as well as businesses and professional bodies, trade unions, civil society organisations and international standard-setting bodies. Experts from Asia, Latin America, Eurasia, Southeast Europe and Russia also contributed to the Principles, sharing their experiences from a series of Regional Roundtables in 2002 and 2003. A draft of the Principles was also put on the internet for public comments and more than 70 submissions were received from national and international organisations, including the International Corporate Governance Network, Standard and Poor’s, the International Federation of Accountants, Institutes of Internal Auditors. Comments were also received from public companies and individual governance experts. The review was led and concluded by the OECD Steering Group on Corporate Governance, which comprises representatives from all 30 memb