Fighting corruption: a priority for the Council of Europe
Several milestones have marked the development of the Council of Europe’s activities against corruption. In 1994, the Ministers of Justice of Council of Europe member States recommended that corruption be addressed at European level, as it poses a serious threat to the stability of democratic institutions and the functioning of the market economy.
The Ministers recognised that an effective fight against corruption must take a broad approach and recommended that a Multidisciplinary Group on Corruption (GMC) be set up to prepare a comprehensive programme of action and to examine
the possibility of drafting legal instruments in this field. With the creation of the GMC in 1995 the fight against corruption was
firmly established as one of the Council of Europe’s priorities.
As a result of the GMC’s work, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted several anti-corruption standard
setting instruments, which are grouped together in this booklet.
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