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Managers play a key role in monitoring whether their staff comply with conflict of interest rules. In addition, an overall interest in monitoring the implementation of policies is taken by central government organisations (for example, the National Public Service Ethics Board in Japan and the Department of Civil Service in Italy) and external institutions (such as Ireland’s Parliamentary Select Committee on Members’ Interest, the attorney-general’s office and the constitutional court in Portugal). Bodies such as these also monitor the compliance of senior public officials and parliamentarians. Based on the results of this survey, the OECD Guidelines for Managing Conflicts of Interest have been designed to help governments to review existing solutions and to modernise mechanisms in line with good practice. The guidelines and the full survey report (due out at the end of 2002) may be viewed at the PUMA area of the OECD website at www.oecd.org/puma/ethics. Contact: János Bertók, principal administrator, Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, OECD (janos.bertok@oecd.org)
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