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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 13-04-05
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[01] GRECO notes Cyprus' efforts to comply with recommendations
[01] GRECO notes Cyprus' efforts to comply with recommendations
Council of Europe GRECO has noted in a third evaluation round compliance
report Cyprus' efforts to comply with the recommendations previously
issued on combating corruption. In a report approved by the CoE plenary,
on Thursday, GRECO notes that Cyprus "has been able to demonstrate that
reforms with the potential of achieving an acceptable level of compliance
with the pending recommendations within the next 18 months are underway".
It concludes that "the current low level of compliance with the
recommendations is not "globally unsatisfactory"" in accordance with
the articles of its Rules of Procedure. Cyprus was due to implement
GRECO recommendations on incriminations and on transparency of party
funding. "In so far as incriminations are concerned, legislative reforms
aimed at ensuring greater coherence of the existing provisions are to
be commended", it is noted.
Thus, the report adds, "a series of amendments introduced in the Criminal
Code, the Prevention of Corruption Law and the two Laws ratifying the
Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention and its Additional Protocol have
remedied some important deficiencies, namely insufficiently dissuasive
pecuniary sanctions for corruption offences, and imprecise definition
of some bribery offences".
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