Mutual evaluation

GRECO evaluation procedures involve the collection of information through questionnaire(s), on-site country visits enabling evaluation teams to solicit further information during high-level discussions with domestic key players, and drafting of evaluation reports. These reports, which are examined and adopted by GRECO, contain recommendations to the evaluated countries in order to improve their level of compliance with the provisions under consideration. Measures taken to implement recommendations are subsequently assessed by GRECO under a separate compliance procedure.

So far GRECO has launched two evaluation rounds dealing with specific provisions of the Twenty Guiding Principles (and associated provisions of the Criminal Law Convention). They include:
 

	independence, specialisation and means available to national bodies engaged in the prevention and fight against corruption
	extent and scope of immunities
	identification, seizure and confiscation of corruption proceeds
	public administration and corruption (auditing systems; conflicts of interest)
	efficiency and transparency with regard to corruption
	prevention of legal persons being used as shields for corruption
	tax and financial legislation to counter corruption and
	links between corruption, organised crime and money laundering.

 

GRECO’s Third Evaluation Round (launch: January 2007) will deal with two distinct themes:

the incriminations provided for in the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, its Additional Protocol and Guiding Principle 2

		definition of bribery offences
		sanctions
		establishment of jurisdiction
		statute of limitations
		special or other defences

the transparency of party funding as understood by reference to the Committee of Ministers’ Recommendation on Common Rules against Corruption in the Funding of Political Parties and Electoral Campaigns (Rec(2003)4)

		main features of national electoral systems and political parties
		political party accounts
		funding, contributions and contributors
		public access to accounts
		general monitoring  of the financing of political parties, related entities, electoral campaigns, elected representatives, election candidates
		supervision of accounts and expenditure of political parties and electoral campaigns
		sanctions/measures for infringements of domestic rules.

Evaluation procedures: See Title II of the Rules of procedure

Link to the reports: First Evaluation Round / Second Evaluation Round / Third Evaluation Round