# Business Principles for Countering Bribery

URL: https://www.transparency.org/en/publications/business-principles-for-countering-bribery
Type: Publication or report
Published: 2013-12-30
Updated: 2020-05-13

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30 December 2013

The Business Principles for Countering Bribery provide a framework for companies to develop comprehensive anti-bribery programmes. Whilst many large companies have no-bribes policies all too few implement these policies effectively. We encourage companies to consider using the business principles as a starting point for developing their own anti-bribery programmes or to benchmark existing ones.

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