# Media advisory: OECD countries fail to keep promise to stop companies bribing abroad

URL: https://www.transparency.org/en/press/media-advisory-oecd-countries-fail-to-keep-promise-to-stop-companies-bribin
Type: Press release
Published: 2015-08-18
Updated: 2020-04-07

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18 August 2015

Some of the world’s biggest exporting nations are still not living up to commitments to stop their companies from paying bribes to win business abroad, according to a new report from Transparency International to be released 20th August 2015.

*Exporting Corruption Progress Report 2015: Assessing Enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Foreign Bribery* quantifies how many of the 41 countries signed up to the Convention are actively enforcing it.

The Convention was designed to tackle the ‘supply side’ of cross-border corruption. Signatories are legally bound to investigate, prosecute and punish companies who bribe officials in foreign countries, a practice that undermines development, distorts markets and costs taxpayers.

The 11th edition of Transparency International’s yearly progress report will show that a significant number of countries have failed to prosecute a single foreign bribery case during the last four years assessed by the report. National-level sections will discuss inadequacies in countries' legal frameworks and practice and recent developments, as well as make specific recommendations.

The report will be available at [www.transparency.org](http://www.transparency.org/) on **Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 00.01am Berlin time.**

Please contact us for an embargoed copy of the report or to set up an interview in advance.

**For any press enquiries please contact**

**Chris Sanders**
T: +49 30 34 38 20 666
E: press@transparency.org