The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), established by the Council of Europe to monitor States’ compliance with the organisation’s anti-corruption standards, has objective to improve the capacity of its members to fight corruption by monitoring their compliance with Council of Europe anti-corruption standards through a dynamic process of mutual evaluation and peer pressure. It helps to identify deficiencies in national anti-corruption policies, prompting the necessary legislative, institutional and practical reforms. GRECO also provides a platform for the sharing of best practice in the prevention and detection of corruption.
GRECO monitors all its members on an equal basis, through a dynamic process of mutual evaluation and peer pressure.
All members participate in, and submit themselves without restriction to, the mutual evaluation and compliance procedures.
GRECO monitoring comprises:
GRECO works in cycles: evaluation rounds, each covering specific themes. GRECO evaluation procedures involve the collection of information through questionnaire(s), on-site country visits enabling evaluation teams to solicit further information during high-level discussions with domestic key players, and drafting of evaluation reports. These reports, which are examined and adopted by GRECO, contain recommendations to the evaluated countries in order to improve their level of compliance with the provisions under consideration. So far GRECO has launched five evaluation rounds dealing with specific provisions of the Twenty Guiding Principles (and associated provisions of the Criminal Law Convention).
For further information on the latest GRECO reports and current status of each Member State please click on the following link.
Source: www.coe.int/en/web/greco/home