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Business Principles for Countering Bribery: TI Guidance Document

Transparency International (TI) has produced this Guidance Document (1) to the Business Principles for Countering Bribery to provide background and clarification to the Business Principles and to assist enterprises implementing or reviewing their anti-bribery Programmes.

Structure of the Guidance Document

The Guidance Document provides comment on each section of the Business Principles and, for ease of reference, the relevant section of the Business Principles is stated before each section in the Guidance Document. A three part format is used consisting of background, implementation and, for some sections, questions and answers on key topics. Some sections provide case studies of good practice, examples of bribery cases and issues. A reading list is provided in Section 7. Links to websites are also given, either placed with relevant text or in a list in section 8, sections 9 and 10. Section 11 provides examples of current cases and concerns and a Glossary of key terms is given in Section 12.

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(1) Whilst this Guidance Document to the Business Principles for Countering Bribery is published by Transparency International, the contents do not necessarily constitute, and do not purport to constitute, definitive statements of TI policies on the wide range of important business practice topics covered. Many of these issues continue to be discussed within the TI family and policy will continue to evolve over time, making it inappropriate to try to establish definitive policies in such a rapidly developing area.