OECD Anti-Corruption Convention Will Take Effect in on February 15, 1999

On December 7, 1998, Australia became the 34th country to sign the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions amid circumstances that make it likely for the Convention to take effect early in 1999. On December 18, the OECD announced that Canada became the eighth country to deposit ratification instruments and that the treaty will enter into force on February 15, 1998... [more]