What is the purpose of the Business Principles?
Regulatory instruments such as the UN Convention against Corruption and the OECD Convention, or voluntary initiatives such as the Global Compact with its 10th Anti-Corruption Principle place significant new obligations on business but do not provide a guide to the specific requirements needed for companies on how they can implement an anti-bribery programme. Indeed even where companies are committed to anti-bribery policies, experience shows that these policies are often not fully understood by all employees or implemented throughout the enterprise. The Business Principles and their supporting tools aim to provide a reference point and guide to detailed implementation for companies developing a new anti-bribery programme or benchmarking an existing programme.
