Ukraine on the Road to OECD and Accession to OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

Since 2014, the Ukrainian anti-corruption infrastructure, created after the Revolution of Dignity, has been gradually gaining strength and been supplemented with new elements. With the support of the international community and civil society NACP, NABU, SAPO, and НАСС were created. These institutions now ensure independent investigation and prosecution of corruption offences.
Military aggression against Ukraine Ьу the Russian Federation turned out to Ье а turning point for Ukraine both in terms of building national unity and in terms of crystallisation of public demand for intolerance to corruption.
ln 2022, Ukraine began moving towards membership in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the OECD Working Group оп Bribery as an integral part of it. То this end, оп August 2, 2022, the Prime Minister of Ukraine sent а letter to the OECD with а request to join the OECD Working Group оп Bribery in lnternational Business Transactions.
One of the mandatory steps оп the way to membership in the OECD is the ratification of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, which is also one of the highest global anti-corruption standards.
Ukraiпe·s accession to the OECD Anti-Corruption Convention is an integral part of the Chapter 23 of EU accession negotiations. lt is also mentioned as an important step in the fourth review of the IMF"s Enhanced Financing Facility program and is mentioned in the ргіогіtіеs of the Act fог Ukraine lnitiative of G7 Justice Ministers.
А specially created Ukrainian Taskforce has been working since July 2022 and developing legislative proposals that would bring Ukraine closer to the ratification of the OECD Апtі-ВгіЬегу Convention, membership in the OECD and the EU. The result of this work is registration of laws reforming the criminal liability of legal persons in Ukraine [Ref. по. 11443 dated 25.07.2024] and introducing the tax non-deductibility of ЬгіЬеs [Ref. по. 10319 dated 06.12.2023] with the support of the heads of standing parliamentary committees. The fогmег draft is expected to pass first reading soon, and the latter to pass second reading and Ье adopted as а whole.