Resist Phase2 New York 23062010 Final

World Economic Forum Partnering Against

Corruption Initiative (PACI)

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PRESENTATION ON RESIST

Resisting Extortion and Solicitation in International Transactions

See link: http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/anticorruption/index.html?id=37568

Iohann Le Frapper as Chair of the Resist Phase 2 initiative

At the UN 10th Principle Working Group on June 23rd, 2010 in New York



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PREAMBLE

Focus of OECD Convention on the « supply » side;

Broader scope of other international treaties (e.g., Merida Convention);

ICC Rules of Conduct.



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Many companies face solicitations or extortions in various markets.

Trend of collective actions (specific industry initiatives or multi-industry coalitions) to :

(i) address the “demand” side and/or,

(ii) emphasize the need for best practices and robust compliance programs.



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Latest inter-governmental initiative promotes training tools : OECD Recommendation of the Council for Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (as of 26 November 2009 as amended on 18 February 2010)

Its Annex II “Good practice guidance…” to both

(a) enterprises to address solicitation and extortion, and

(b) business organisations/professional associations (like ICC) to assist companies, inter alia:

(i) “in making training…tools available”, and

(ii) in providing general advice on how to resist extortion and solicitation.

*see link: http://www.oecd.org/document/41/0,3343,en_2649_34487_44697385_1_1_1_1,00.html



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What is RESIST?

A company tool for employee training about “Resisting Extortions and Solicitations in International Transactions”:

(i) by trainers for the purpose of ethics trainings targeting company’s staff, or

(ii) to give guidance and facilitate discussions within companies to anticipate, or faced with, dilemmas.

A handbook based on real-life solutions : practical suggestions to be tailor-made by enterprises (as part of their compliance programs) but not to be implemented “AS IS” in the field.



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What is RESIST? (cont’d.)

A key precedent of a successful partnership among 4 major international organisations involved in the fight against corruption: ICC, Transparency International, World Economic Forum Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI) and United Nations Global Compact;

Joint initiative among 4 sponsors was launched in 2007;

In accordance with the life cycle of projects (business development until project award first, project implementation second), the RESIST tool was split into Phase 1 (pre-contract stage) and Phase 2 (contract implementation).



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Phase 1 was led and chaired by François Georges, currently the head of ICC France, with the contribution of a total of 21 companies or organisations involved via one of the sponsors;

ICC also teamed up in 2008 with TI, the UNGC, and the EWF/PACI in the joint publication of a short guide : “Clean Business Is Good Business: The Business Case against Corruption” (see the link to the press release: http://www.iccwbo.org/iccccgdi/index.html ).



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March 2009: release of Phase 1 product consisting mainly of:

(i) 7 real-life scenarios (during procurement process), and

(ii) generic recommendations.

Apart from the sponsors, the main contributors were European, US andAfrican companies; several face-to-face brain-storming sessions in Paris for each of the cases.

June 2010 : One single document merging Phase 1 & Phase 2 released at the UNGC event in NY. What is new?

(i)15 additional scenarios of solicitations or extortion attempts arising during the course of a project implementation, and

(ii) expanded generic recommendations.



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RESIST as a “Public Good”:

(i) Joint copyright of 4 sponsors;

(ii) Goal : global dissemination of the materials made available free of charge on each of the sponsors’ websites; and

(iii) any use of materials for commercial purposes is expressly prohibited.



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Future of RESIST?

Translations in other languages: French, Korean

e-learning modules

or

webinars?

Documents

Resist Phase2 New York 23062010 Final