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HOW TO COMBAT CORRUPTION MORE EFFECTIVELY: NEW LEGAL PUSH FOR COMPLIANCE PROGRAMMES
Celina NOWAK1
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023, Publication date: 29 December 2023
Keywords: corruption, compliance, criminal law, prevention of corruption
Abstract This article refers to the fight against corruption, analysed against the background of the new European Commission proposal for a Directive on combating corruption. The author points out the most significant provisions of the proposal, focusing in particular on Art. 18-2(b) which refers to compliance programmes. Pursuant to this provision, once the proposal is adopted, the implementation of a compliance programme by a legal person will constitute a circumstance mitigating sanctions. The author points out that this solution will constitute an important incitement towards a more common adoption of compliance programmes by legal persons in the EU Member States
Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
ORCID: 0000-0001-5230-1057
E-mail: celina.nowak@inp.pan.pl