Steps taken by Finland to implement and enforce the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions

(Information as of 25 October 2004)

Date of deposit of instrument of ratification/acceptance or date of accession, implementing legislation

Finland has signed OECD Convention of Anti-Bribery 17.12.1997. Finland deposited its instrument of ratification on 10 December 1998. Convention entered into force 15 February 1999.

The necessary implementing legislation was enacted in November 1998 and came into force on 1 January 1999.

Deposit of instrument of ratification/acceptance: 10 December 1998
Entry into force of the Convention: 15 February 1999
Entry into force of implementing legislation: 1 January 1999

Other relevant laws, regulations and decrees that have an impact on a country’s implementation of the OECD Convention or the Recommendations

Penal Code, especially section 13.
Act on International Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters
Act on Detection and Prevention of Money Laundering (68/1998 and 365/2003)
Act on Credit Institutions
State Civil Servant’s Act
Security Clearance Act

Finland is a Party to European Convention of Extradition (1957), 1996 Convention of Extradition between EU Member States as well 1995 Convention on a Simplified Extradition Procedure between EU Member States.

Signature/Ratification of other relevant international instruments

Finland has (among others) signed and/or ratified the following international instruments on combating corruption:

- European Council Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, signed 27.1.1999, ratified 3.10.2002, entered into force 1.2.2003;

- European Council Civil Law Convention on Corruption, signed 8.6.2000, ratified 23.10.2001, entered into force 1.11.2003;

- Additional Protocol on the European Council Criminal Law Convention on Corruption;

- Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime, signed 25.9.1991, ratified 9.3.1994 and entered into force 1.7.1994;

- United Nations Convention against Corruption, signed 10.12.2003;

- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, signed 12.12.2000, ratified 10.2.2003.

Relevant Internet links to national implementing legislation

The Ministry of Justice
www.om.fi

The Office of the General Prosecutor
www.oikeus.fi/vksv/

The Police
www.poliisi.fi  (contains also links to the National Bureau of Investigation and there also the Money Laundering Clearing House)

The Government of Finland
www.valtioneuvosto.fi

The Parliament of Finland
www.eduskunta.fi

Web-based legal resource centre of the Finnish Ministry of Justice is found in
www.finlex.fi

Working Group on Bribery Monitoring Reports 

Phase 1:  Review of Implementation of the Convention and 1997 Recommendation
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/14/20/2386203.pdf

Phase 2:  Report on the Application of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and the 1997 Recommendation on Combating Bribery in International Business Transactions
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/52/0/2088239.pdf

Phase 2: Follow-up Report on the Implementation of the Phase 2 Recommendations on the Application of the Convention and the 1997 Recommendation on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/13/36373405.pdf