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urbanísticos se estrena con 100 operaciones y 57 arrestos’, El País, 19 November 2007. M. Villoria, ‘Las nuevas medidas al servicio de la transparencia, la participación y el control en
el gobierno local en la Ley del Suelo’, Ciudad y Territorio: Estudios Territoriales, vol. 29, nos. 152–3 (2007). TI Spain: www.transparencia.org.es.
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Corruption Perceptions Index 2008: 9.0 (5th out of 180 countries) Conventions Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Corruption (signed February 2001; ratified March 2006) OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials (signed December 1997; ratified May 2000) UN Convention against Corruption (signed December 2003; not yet ratified) UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (signed December 2000; ratified October 2006)
Legal and institutional changes ● At its plenary meeting in April 2008 the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption adopted its first evaluation report on Switzerland, assessing the quality of its implementation of the Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Corruption and its Additional Protocol. It found Switzerland to have made significant efforts to combat corruption, but also issued thirteen recom-
mendations to improve the convention’s implementation. Switzerland will have to report on its implementation of the recommendations by 31 October 2009.1 ● After the elaboration of a draft for the Company and Accounting Law Reform by the FDJP2, the Federal Council recommended that parliament accept the reform.3 The bill improves, inter alia, corporate governance and the legal status of shareholders and replaces outdated accounting legislation. Furthermore,
1 Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP), ‘Further Action Recommended to Combat Corruption’, press release, 2 June 2008. 2 TI, Global Corruption Report 2008 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). 3 Botschaft zur Änderung des Obligationenrechts (Opinion of the Federal Council for changing the Code of Obligations), 21 December 2007:
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