Seoul Annex 3 Corrupt Action Plan 11-12-10

ANNEX III
G20 Anti-Corruption Action Plan
G20 Agenda for Action on Combating Corruption, Promoting Market Integrity, and
Supporting a Clean Business Environment
Corruption threatens the integrity of markets, undermines fair competition, distorts resource
allocation, destroys public trust, and undermines the rule of law. Corruption is a severe
impediment to economic growth, and a significant challenge for developed, emerging and
developing countries. As leaders of major trading nations, we have a special responsibility to
prevent and tackle corruption, to establish legal and policy frameworks that promote a clean
business environment and to continue to assist G20 countries in their capacity building efforts to
combat corruption.
Building on our Leaders’ declarations, the G20 commits to supporting a common approach to an
effective global anti-corruption regime, the principles of which are enshrined in the provisions of
the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC); showing collective leadership by
taking action in high priority areas that affect our economies; and to directly engaging our private
sector stakeholders, who represent the leading share of global businesses, in the development and
implementation of innovative and cooperative practices in support of a clean business
environment. In that respect, the G20 agreed in Toronto to establish a Working Group to make
comprehensive recommendations for consideration by Leaders in Korea in November 2010 on
how the G20 could continue to make practical and valuable contributions to international efforts
to combat corruption and lead by example
In this regard, we recognize the importance of building upon and complementing existing global
mechanism, i.e., the UNCAC, including other international instruments such as the OECD
Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business
Transactions and regional instruments.
To this end the G20 will lead by example in key areas, including but not limited to, as follows:
1. To ratify or accede, and fully implement the UNCAC by G20 countries as soon as possible,
to invite non-G20 states to ratify or accede the UNCAC and to strengthen the individual
reviews in line with the current Terms of Reference of the Mechanism for the Review of
Implementation of the UNCAC, by ensuring that our individual reviews, under the new
implementation review mechanism, are conducted in an effective and thorough manner, and
endeavor to enhance the level of transparency and inclusivity.
2. To adopt and enforce laws and other measures against international bribery, such as the
criminalization of bribery of foreign public officials, and begin by 2012 the necessary
discussions to lead to, on a voluntary basis, more active engagement within the OECD
Working Group on Bribery with regards to the standards of the Convention on Combating
Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions or to the
ratification of the Convention. G20 countries will as well promote the effective
implementation of Article 16 on bribery of foreign public officials and public international
organizations of the UNCAC.
3. To prevent corrupt officials from accessing the global financial system and from laundering
their proceeds of corruption, we call upon the G20 to further strengthen its effort to prevent
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and combat money laundering, and invite the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to
continue to emphasize the anti-corruption agenda as we urged in Pittsburgh and report back
to us in France on its work to: continue to identify and engage those jurisdictions with
strategic Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) deficiencies;
and update and implement the FATF standards calling for transparency of cross-border
wires, beneficial ownership, customer due diligence, and due diligence for “politically
exposed persons”.
4. To prevent corrupt officials from being able to travel abroad with impunity, G20 countries
will consider a cooperative framework to deny entry and safe haven in our jurisdictions to
corrupt officials and those who corrupt them. To that end, G20 experts will examine the
possibility to develop common principles for national measures to deny entry of corrupt
officials, taking into account existing practices and barriers, and recommend frameworks
for bilateral cooperation on the application of this authority.
5. To strengthen international cooperation and to lead by example through our own efforts to
tackle corruption and bribery, the G20 will promote the use of the UNCAC, particularly
those provisions related to extradition, mutual legal assistance and asset recovery and offer
technical assistance where needed, and encourage the signing of bilateral and multilateral
treaties on extradition, mutual legal assistance and asset recovery. We will endeavor to
address the technical assistance requirements identified by state parties through the
implementation of the review mechanism of the UNCAC to further promote
implementation of the Convention.
6. To support the recovery of proceeds of corruption stowed abroad, all G20 countries will
adopt measures related to, inter alia, preventing and detecting transfers of proceeds of crime;
measures for direct recovery of property; mechanisms for recovery of property through
international cooperation in asset tracing, freezing and confiscation; measures for special
cooperation in voluntary disclosure; and return and dispose of assets as enshrined in
Chapter V of the UNCAC. To this end, G20 countries will by the time of the 2011 Summit
in France, establish clear and effective channels for mutual legal assistance, and other forms
of international cooperation, on corruption and asset recovery, in particular, if they have not
done so already, designate an appropriate authority responsible for international mutual
legal assistance requests relating to corruption and asset recovery; establish points of
contact for law enforcement and international cooperation on corruption cases; and develop
specialized expertise for asset recovery in an appropriate agency.
7. To protect whistleblowers, who report in good faith suspected acts of corruption, from
discriminatory and retaliatory actions, G20 countries will enact and implement
whistleblower protection rules by the end of 2012. To that end, building upon the existing
work of organizations such as the OECD and the World Bank, G20 experts will study and
summarize existing whistleblower protection legislation and enforcement mechanisms, and
propose best practices on whistleblower protection legislation.
8. To strengthen the effective functioning of anti-corruption bodies or enforcement authorities

in the prevention and fight against corruption and enable these authorities to carry out their
function free from undue influence, G20 countries will take as soon as possible the
necessary actions to implement Article 6 (anti-corruption body or bodies) and Article 36
(specialized authorities) of the UNCAC.
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9. To promote integrity, transparency, accountability and the prevention of corruption, in the
public sector, including in the management of public finances.
The G20 will exercise its voice in the governance of international organizations to encourage that
they operate with transparency, high ethical standards, effective internal safeguards and the
highest standard of integrity. To that end, we call for continued dialogue among international
organizations and national authorities on defining good practices and ways forward on this
objective.
Business is a stakeholder in anti-corruption efforts, and its engagement on the issue is essential.
The G20 will encourage public-private partnerships and offers a significant opportunity for
developing and implementing initiatives that engage the private sector in the global fight against
corruption.
To this end, the G20 will:
· strengthen corporate efforts, by extending an invitation to the private sector to meet during
the French Presidency, to examine best practices and other forms of business engagement
in combating corruption and to consider how G20 corporations could share their on-going
efforts.
· combat corruption in specific sectors, by working with industry and civil society to identify
vulnerabilities in commercial transactions in a subset of specific sectors, with the goal of
recommending multi-stakeholder initiatives for improvements in propriety, integrity and
transparency by the end of 2011, for consideration by Leaders and implementation
thereafter as appropriate.
Leading by example, the G20 holds itself accountable for its commitments. Beyond our
participation in existing mechanisms of peer review for anti-corruption standards, reports, agreed
within the working group, on individual and collective progresses made by G20 countries in the
implementation of the Action Plan will be submitted on an annual basis to the G20 Leaders for
the duration of this Action Plan.
In this context, the Anti-Corruption Working Group will prepare a first monitoring report for the
Leaders at next Summit in France.

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ANNEX III

G20 Anti-Corruption Action Plan

8. To strengthen the effective functioning of anti-corruption bodies or enforcement authorities

To this end, the G20 will:

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