The United Nations Convention Against Corruption

• Introduction


• Preamble


• CHAPTER I: GENERAL PROVISIONS


• Article 1. Statement of purpose


• Article 2. Use of terms


• Article 3. Scope of application


• Article 4. Protection of sovereignty


• CHAPTER II: PREVENTIVE MEASURES


• Article 5. Preventive anti-corruption policies and practices


• Article 6. Preventive anti-corruption body or bodies


• Article 7. Public sector


• Article 8. Codes of conduct for public officials


• Article 9. Public procurement and management of public finances


• Article 10. Public reporting


• Article 11. Measures relating to the judiciary and prosecution services


• Article 12. Private sector


• Article 13. Participation of society


• Article 14. Measures to prevent money-laundering


• CHAPTER III: CRIMINALIZATION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT


• Article 15. Bribery of national public officials


• Article 16. Bribery of foreign public officials and officials of public international organizations


• Article 17. Embezzlement, misappropriation or other diversion of property by a public official


• Article 18. Trading in influence


• Article 19. Abuse of functions


• Article 20. Illicit enrichment


• Article 21. Bribery in the private sector


• Article 22. Embezzlement of property in the private sector


• Article 23. Laundering of proceeds of crime


• Article 24. Concealment


• Article 25. Obstruction of justice


• Article 26. Liability of legal persons


• Article 27. Participation and attempt


• Article 28. Knowledge, intent and purpose as elements of an offence


• Article 29. Statute of limitations


• Article 30. Prosecution, adjudication and sanctions

Cecily Rose is an assistant professor of public international law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University. Before joining the Grotius Centre she worked as an associate legal officer at the International Court of Justice and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and in private practice. She holds a LL.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, a J.D. from Columbia Law School, and B.A. (English) from Yale.


Michael Kubiciel is a professor of german, european and international criminal law at the University of Augsburg/Germany. His main fields of work are fraud/corruption, corporate crime and the internationalization of criminal law. In the last ten years he has acted as a consultant for several international organizations regarding anti-corruption policies, written several book-chapters, articles and a book in that field and has contributed to the official Technical Guide to UNCAC and the EU Anti-Corruption Report. Before joining the law faculty in Augsburg, Kubiciel worked professor at the University of Cologne, as an assistant professor at the University of Regensburg, as senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law and as associate in the Düsseldorf office of Wessing Rechtsanwälte.

Oliver Landwehr is a senior legal and policy officer at the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF). Prior to that he was a legal officer at the Corruption and Economic Crime Branch of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna. He mainly works on the evaluation of national anti-corruption legislation in the framework of the Implementation Review Mechanism of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). Prior to coming to UNODC, he worked as a référendaire (law clerk) in the chambers of two judges at the General Court of the EU, as a lecturer at King's College London School of Law and in private practice in an international law firm.