Back مجموعة الدول لمكافحة الفساد Arabic ГРЕКО Bulgarian Grup d'Estats contra la Corrupció Catalan Group of States Against Corruption Danish GRECO German Ομάδα κρατών κατά της διαφθοράς Greek Grupo de Estados contra la Corrupción Spanish GRECO Finnish Groupe d'États contre la corruption French Gruppo di Stati contro la corruzione Italian
Group of States Against Corruption | |
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| Formation | May 1, 1999 |
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| Type | Institutional |
| Headquarters | Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France |
| Membership | 50 member states, 10 observers |
| Website | http://www.coe.int/greco |
The Group of States against Corruption (French: groupe d'États contre la corruption, GRECO) is the Council of Europe's anti-corruption monitoring body with its headquarters in Strasbourg (France). It was established in 1999 as an enlarged partial agreement by 17 Council of Europe member states.
GRECO, which is also open to non-European states, currently has 49 members (47 European states, Kazakhstan and the United States of America).[1][2][a] Since August 2010, all Council of Europe members have been members of GRECO. Membership in GRECO is not limited to Council of Europe member states, any state which took part in the elaboration of the enlarged partial agreement, may join by notifying the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. Moreover, any state which becomes party to Council of Europe's Criminal or Civil Law Conventions on Corruption automatically accedes to GRECO and its evaluation procedures.[1] While all its member states are GRECO members, the European Union itself is not, but it became an observer in 2019.[3][4] In May 2024, the GRECO called on European Union institutions to become full members, the GRECO's president saying that it's "a question of will".[5]
The GRECO Secretariat is located in the Council of Europe's "Agora" building completed in 2008.
Of GRECO's 2019 recommendations, Serbia, Turkey and Slovakia did not fully implement any of them while Norway was scored best. Recommendations related to reducing corruption among MPs were least implemented (27 percent). GRECO's president stated in a press release, "This explains to a large extent why people's trust in politics is very low and will be even lower if politicians don't step up their compliance with integrity standards".[6]
- ^ a b c "What is GRECO?". www.coe.int. Retrieved 2017-08-28.
- ^ "Members and Observers/ Etats membres et Observateurs". www.coe.int. Retrieved 2017-08-28.
- ^ Vera Milicevic (2021-06-15). EU cooperation with the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO): how to move towards full membership: Background document for the workshop: The EU's current role in GRECO and ambitions for the future: how to move towards full membership (PDF). European Parliament.
The EU became an observer to GRECO in July 2019. Acquiring observer status has legal effects, limited to the following: observers have the right to participate in GRECO meetings and to have access to all documents discussed; observers do not have the right to vote, are not subject to evaluation and do not take formal positions in evaluation processes nor participate in evaluation missions.
- ^ "EU Influence: Shrugging off oversight — Uber crunch — Stellantis skips lobbying". POLITICO. 2023-01-19. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
- ^ "Le Groupe d'Etats contre la corruption appelle l'Union européenne à rejoindre ses rangs". RTBF (in French). Retrieved 2024-10-15.
- ^ Stojanovic, Milica (3 June 2020). "Balkans, Central Europe Failing to Prevent MPs' Corruption – GRECO". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
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