More than 30 of TI’s chapters around the world held national launch events such as discussions and press conferences, highlighting concrete problems in their countries and calling for outstanding reforms and national strategies. Some of these chapters included TI Papua New Guinea, Transparence Maroc and TI’s chapter in Argentina, Poder Ciudadano. In their launch event, TI Georgia gave the government eight concrete measures such as civil society reform and scrutiny of public official’s assets to fight corruption, while TI Korea identified a need for a countrywide ethics infrastructure. TI Malaysia was particularly concerned about large scale public procurement projects run by the government. In Austria, the chapter presented its catalogue of suggestions to fight corruption and commented on the draft of the Ministry of Justice regarding the Anti-Corruption Law 2008.

TI Germany focussed on the responsibility of German companies operated in international markets, highlighting foreign bribery and the supply side of corruption. On this point, TI’s chair, Huguette Labelle, stated: “The bribe money that buys a champagne lifestyle for corrupt officials in the poorest nations often originates in multinational companies based in the world’s richest countries – the CPI’s top scorers”.

Detailed information about the CPI can be found here: www.transparency.org/news_room/in_focus/2007/cpi2007