March 3, 2014
Earlier today, following its recent Global Forum on Competition, the OECD has published an interesting new report with international contributions on corruption and competition entitled Fighting Corruption and Promoting Competition. This new report includes submissions from Canada (the Competition Bureau) as well as a number of other leading jurisdictions including the United States.
Canada’s submission includes discussions on the Bureau’s partnerships with criminal law enforcement, the Bureau’s anti-corruption work with UPAC (Quebec’s anti-corruption unit), ongoing Charbonneau Commission in Quebec and work with procurement authorities to fight bid-rigging.
OECD introduction:
“In 2011, a discussion on Collusion and Corruption in Public Procurement attracted a lot of attention from Global Forum on Competition participants. In 2014, the topic will be further explored focusing this time on the interface between competition and corruption.
The first session of the 2014 Global Forum on Competition (27-28 February) discussed how anti-competitive behaviour and corruption interact through the corruption of business licensing processes or other types of regulation to restrict entry. More general links between corruption and anti-competitive behaviour were addressed such as public and judicial attitudes to these two abuses, as well as the links between institutions engaged in fighting them.
Participants were encouraged to share relevant cases from their own jurisdictions and also any formal or informal agreements with anti-corruption institutions.
Some of the key issues under discussion: how do we define corruption?; what factors favour the emergence or persistence of corruption?; what are the policy levers to limit or eradicate corruption?; how does the development of a competition policy help in the fight against corruption?”
For a copy of the new report see: Fighting Corruption and Promoting Competition.
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