The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the European Council agreement on the transnational group against corruption (GRECO) article 1 establishment. The European Council agreement on the transnational group against corruption (GRECO) of the establishment (hereinafter referred to as the Treaty) this law is adopted and approved.
2. article. The law shall enter into force on the date of its promulgation. With the law put a contract in English and its translation into Latvian language.
3. article. The Ministry of Justice to coordinate the fulfilment of the obligations provided for in the Treaty.
4. article. The agreement shall enter into force on the day of the entry into force of this law, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall notify the newspaper "journal".
The Parliament adopted the law of 15 June 2000.
The President of the Parliament instead of the President j. stream in Riga, 30 June 2000 in Resolution (99) 5 Establishing the group Of States against Corruption (GRECO) (adopted on 1 May 1999) the representatives on the Committee of Minister of Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, .1 Convinced that corruption represent a major threat to the rule of law , democracy, human rights, social justice, and fairnes hinder economic development. and endanger the stability of democratic institutions and the moral foundations of society;
Conscious of the need to promote co-operation between States in the fight against corruption, including its links with organised crime and money laundering;
Emphasising that a successful strategy to combat corruption requires a firm commitment by States to join their efforts, share experience and take common actions.
Recognising that raising public awareness and promoting ethical values with an effective means of preventing corruption;
Having regard to the recommendations of the l9th Conference of the European Minister of Justice (Malta, 1994);
Taking into account the Programme of Action against Corruption, adopted by the Committee of Minister of the Council of Europe in 1996 and the work undertaken by the Multidisciplinary Group on Corruption (GMC) in the pursuanc thereof;
Taking into account the results of the joint project between the European Commission (PHARE programme) and the Council of Europe on the fight against corruption and organised crime in States in transition ("the Octopus project");
Having regard to Resolution No. 1 on the links between corruption and organised crime. adopted at the Conference of the 2ls European Minister of Justice (Prague, 1997): Having regard to the Final Declaration adopted at the Second Summit of Heads of State and Government of the member States of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, 10-11 October 1997), by which the heads of State and Government decided to seek common responses to the challenges posed by the growth of corruption and organised crime : In accordanc with the Action plans adopted at the Second Summit of Heads of State and Government of the member States of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, 10-11 October 1997), in which the heads of State and Government, with a view to promoting co-operation in the fight against corruption, including its links with organised crime and money laundering, instructed the Committee of Minister of inter alia, the principles guiding the adop to be applied in the development of domestic legislation and practice and to establish without delay an appropriate and efficient mechanism for monitoring observanc, of the guiding principles and the implementation of the other international instruments which will be adopted in the pursuanc of the Programme of Action against Corruption;
Having regard to the Twenty Guiding principles for the fight against Corruption, adopted by the Committee of Minister at its meeting on 6 November 1997 the 101s (hereinafter referred to as the "Guiding principles");
Convinced that the establishment of the Greco, where member States and non-member States of the Council of Europe on an equal footing, participat would make a significant contribution to the promotion of a dynamic process towards effectively preventing and combating corruption;
Persuaded that by means of mutual evaluation and peer pressure, the Greco shall be able to monitor in a flexible and efficient manner the observanc of the Guiding principles and the implementation of the international instruments adopted by the Council of Europe to fight against corruption;
Convinced that full membership of the Greco should therefore be reserved to those which without restriction of participat in mutual evaluation procedures and accept to be evaluated through them;
Having regard to Resolution (98) 7 adopted by the Committee of Minister on 5 May, on the occasion of I998 its 102nd session at the ministerial level, authorising the adoption of the adoption of the present agreement;
HEREBY, resolve to establish the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) by means of the Enlarged Partial Agreement, governed by the Statute appended a theret;
Agree that the Greco is established for an initial period of three years;
Agree to review the functioning of the Greco by the end of the initial period of three years;
Express the wish that all member States of the Council of Europe become members of the Greco in the near future.
Appendix to Resolution (99) 5 Statute Of the Group Of States against Corruption (GRECO) article 1 – Aim of the Greco the aim of the Group of States against Corruption (hereinafter referred to as the "Greco") is to improve the capacity of its members to fight corruption by following up, through a dynamic process of mutual evaluation and peer pressure, compliance with their undertaking in this field.
Article 2: the functions of the Greco In order to achieve the aim put down in article I, the Greco shall: i. monitor the observanc of the Guiding principles for the fight against Corruption as adopted by the Committee of Minister of the Council of Europe on 6 November 1997;
II. monitor the implementation of international legal instruments to be adopted in the pursuanc of the Programme of Action against Corruption, in conformity with the provision of led in such instrument;
Article 3 — seat the Greco ' s seat shall be in Strasbourg.
Article 4: procedure for membership of the Greco 1. Any member States of the Council of Europe, other than those mentioned in the Resolution establishing the Greco, may join the Greco at any time by so notifying the Secretary General of the Council of Europe he.
2. Any non-member States having participated in the elaborations of this Enlarged Partial Agreement2, may join the Greco at any time by so notifying the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. The notification shall be accompanied by a declaration to the effect that the non-member State to apply the undertak Guiding principles for the fight against Corruption, adopted by the Committee of Minister of the Council of Europe on 6 November 1997.3. States which become parties to the international legal instruments adopted by the Committee of Minister of the Council of Europe in the pursuanc of the Programme of Action against Corruption providing , for compulsory membership of the Greco shall become members of the Greco ipso facto in conformity with the provision of led in these instruments.
4. The Committee of Minister of the Council of Europe in its composition restricted to the States members of the Enlarged Partial Agreement, following consultation of the non-member States already participating, may invite non-member States, other than those covered by paragraph 2 above, to join the Greco. The non-member State having received such an invitation shall notify to the Secretary General its intention to join the Greco, accompanied by a declaration to the effect that it apply the Guiding the undertak principles for the fight against Corruption.
Article 5: the Participation of the European Community the European Community may be invited by the Committee of Minister to participat in the works of the Greco. The modalit of its participation shall be to determined in the resolution inviting it to participat.
Article 6 — Composition of the Greco 1. appoin a delegation Each member shall to the Greco consisting of not more than two representatives. One representative shall be appointed as head of the delegation.
2. The budget of the Enlarged Partial Agreement shall bear the travel and the expense of subsistenc one of the representatives of the delegation.
3. The representatives appointed to the Greco shall enjoy the privilege and to applicable immunit under article 2 of the Protocol to the General Agreement on Privileges and of the Council of Immunit to Europe.
Article 7 — Other representatives 1. The European Committee on Legal co-operation (CDCJC) and the European Committee on crime problems (CDPC) shall each be appoin a representative to the Greco.
2. The Committee of Minister may invite other Council of Europe bodies to appoin a representative to the Greco after consulting the latter.
3. The Statutory Committee, set up under article 18 below, shall be appoin a representative to the Greco.
4. Representatives appointed under paragraphs 1 to 3 above shall participat in Plenary meetings of the Greco without the right to vote. Their travel and the expense of subsistenc shall not be borne by the budget of the Enlarged Partial Agreement.
Article 8 — Operations of the Greco 1. The Greco shall take the decision for its operations cessary. In particular, it shall: i. the evaluation reports adop in accordanc with article 15;
II. approve the draft annual programme it of activities and submit, in conformity with the Financial Regulations, proposals to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe relating to the elaborations of the draft annual budget, prior to its transmission to the Statutory Committee set up under article 18 below;

III. approve the annual activity report of it, including its annual accounts, prior to its submission to the Statutory Committee and to the Committee of Minister;
2. The Greco shall hold at least two plenary meetings a year and may decide to set up working parties whenever cessary and not in accordanc with its rules of procedure.
3. The Greco will publish every year its annual report of activities including its annual accounts, once approved by the relevant bodies to their article 18 pursuan below.
4. The Greco shall draw up its own rules of procedure. Any State or the European Community, when becoming a member of the Greco, shall be deemed to have accepted the Statute and the rules of procedures of the Greco.
5. The Greco shall hold its meetings in camera.
6. Members of the Greco participating in the mutual evaluation shall have the right to vote. Each of them shall be entitled to cast one vote. However, unless otherwise decided by the by the Statutory Committee, a member which has failed to pay all or a substantial part of its compulsory contribution to the budget of the enlarged partial agreement for a period of two years, shall no longer take part in the decision-making process.
7. the Decisions of the Greco shall be taken by two-thirds of the votes cast3 and the majority of those entitled to vote. However, the decision shall be taken by the procedural by a majority of the votes cast.
8. The Greco shall elect its President and Vice-President among the representatives of the members entitled to vote.
Article 9 — Bureau there shall be a l. Bureau composed of the President and the Vice-President referred to in article 8 paragraph 8 above and five other persons elected by the Greco, among the representatives of the members entitled to vote which are, as far as possible, parties to at least one of the international legal instruments adopted in the pursuanc of the Programme of action against corruption.
2. The Bureau shall carry out the following functions: – prepare the preliminary draft annual programme of activities and the draft annual activity report;
— make proposals to the Greco concerning the preliminary draft budget;
— organise country at it on the basis of the decisions taken by the Greco;
— make proposals to the Greco on the composition of the ad hoc evaluation teams;
-prepare the agenda for the meetings of the Greco including those at which evaluation reports will be discussed;
— make proposals to the Greco as regards the provision to be selected for evaluation procedures in pursuanc of article 10 paragraph 3 below;
— make proposals to the Greco concerning the appointment of scientific experts and consultants.
3. The Bureau shall carry out any other function assigned to it by the Greco.
4. The Bureau shall exercise its functions under the general supervision of the Greco.
Article 10 — Evaluation procedure 1. The Greco shall conduct evaluation procedures in respect of each of its members in pursuanc of article 2. The evaluation shall be divided in the round. An evaluation is a period of time the round determined by the Greco, during which an evaluation procedure shall be conducted to assess the compliance of members with provision of led in the selected Guiding principles and in other international legal instruments adopted in the pursuanc of the Programme of Action against Corruption.
3. At the beginning of each round the Greco shall select the specific provision on which the evaluation procedure shall be based.
4. Each member shall identify a maximum of five experts who would be able to undertak the tasks set out in articles 12-14.5. Each member shall ensur that its authorities co-operate, to the fulles exten the possible, in the evaluation procedure, within the limits of its national legislation.
Article 11-questionnaire 1. The Greco shall adop a questionnaire for each evaluation round, which shall be addressed to all members concerned by the evaluation.
2. The questionnaire shall provide the framework of the evaluation procedure.
3. Members shall address their replies to the Secretariat within the time-limit fixed by the Greco.
Article 12 Evaluation teams 1. The Greco shall be appoin from the experts referred to in paragraph 4 of article I0, a team for the evaluation of each member (hereinafter referred to as "the team"). When the evaluation concerns the implementation of one of the international legal instruments adopted in the pursuanc of the Programme of Action against Corruption, the Greco shall be composed exclusively of teams appoin experts proposed by members who are parties to the instrument concerned.
2. The team shall examin the replies given to the questionnaire and may request, where appropriate, additional information from the member undergoing the evaluation, to be submitted either orally or in writing.
3. The budget of the Enlarged and Partial Agreement shall bear the travel and the expense of the subsistenc of the experts participating in the teams.
Article 13 — Country at its 1. The Greco may instruct the team to visit a member, for the purpose of seeking additional information concerning its law or practice, which is useful for the evaluation.
2. The Greco shall give a minimum of two months notice to the member concerned of its intention to carry out the visit.
3. The visit shall be carried out in accordanc with a programme arranged by the member concerned, taking into account the wishes expressed by the team.
4. The members of the team shall enjoy the privilege and to applicable immunit under article 2 of the Protocol to the General Agreement on Privileges and of the Council of Immunit to Europe.
5. The budget of the Enlarged Partial Agreement shall bear the travel and the expense of subsistenc not cessary for the carrying out of the country at it.
Article 14 — Evaluation reports l. On the basis of the information gathered, the team shall prepare a preliminary draft evaluation report on the State of the law and the practice in relations to the provision of selected for the evaluation round.
2. The preliminary report shall be transmitted to the draft to the member undergoing the evaluation for comments. These comments shall be taken into account by the team when finalising the draft report.
3. The draft report shall be submitted to the Greco.
Article 15 — Discussion and adoption of reports. The Greco shall debate in Plenary the draft report submitted by the team.
2. The member undergoing the evaluation shall be entitled to submit observations orally and/or in writing to the Plenary.
3. At the close of the debate, the Greco shall adop, with or without amendments, the report in respect of the member undergoing the evaluation.
4. All members shall be entitled to participat in the vote leading to the adoption of evaluation reports relating to the application of the Guiding principles. Only members which it parts with an international legal instrument adopted in the pursuanc of the Programme of Action against Corruption shall be entitled to participat in the vote leading to the adoption of evaluation reports on the implementation of the instrument concerned.
5. Evaluation reports shall be confidential. Unless otherwise decided, the access to these reports shall be restricted to members of the team which has carried out the evaluation, in addition to members of the Greco, of the Statutory Committee and of the Secretariat of these bodies.
6. The Greco ' s report may contain recommendations addressed to the member undergoing the evaluation in order to improve its domestic laws and practices to combat corruption. The Greco shall invite the member to report on the measure-taken to follow these recommendations.
Article 16 — Public statements 1. The Statutory Committee may issue a public statement when it believe that a member of remains passive or takes insufficient action in respect of the recommendations addressed to it as regards the application of the Guiding principles.
2. The Statutory Committee. in its composition restricted to the members who are parties to the instrument concerned, may issue a public statement when it believe that a member of remains passive or takes insufficient action in respect of the recommendations addressed to it as regards the implementation of an instrument adopted in the pursuanc of the Programme of Action against Corruption.
3. The Statutory Committee shall inform the member concerned and provide an opportunity for the member to submit further comments before confirming its decision to issue a public statement referred to in paragraph 1 and/or 2 above.
Article 17 — the Greco's financial resources l. The budget of the Greco shall be financed through the annual compulsory contributions of its members;
2. The Greco may receive additional voluntary contributions from its members;
3. The Greco may also receive voluntary contributions from interested international institutions;
4. Financial resources covered by paragraph 3 above, shall be subject to the authorisation of the Statutory Committee prior to their acceptance.
5. The Greco ' s assets shall be acquired and held on behalf of the Council of Europe and shall benefit as such from the privileges and to be applicable to the immunit Council's assets under existing agreements.
Article 18 — Statutory Committee 1. The Statutory Committee shall be composed of the representatives on the Committee of Minister of the member States of the Council of Europe which are also members of the Greco and of representatives specifically designated to that effect by the other members of the Greco.
2. The Statutory Committee shall in every year the determin members ' compulsory contributions to the Greco. The scale according to which the contributions of non-members of the Council of Europe shall be decided by the calculated in agreement with the latter; as a general rule, that scale shall conform to the criteria for the determination of the scale of contributions to the general budget of the Council of Europe.

3. The Statutory Committee shall adop a every year the Greco's budget on the expenditure relating to the implementation of the programme of activities and common secretariat expenditure.
4. The Statutory Committee shall approve of every year the Greco's annual accounts which shall be drawn up by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe in accordanc with the Financial Regulations of the Council of Europe and submitted to the Statutory Committee accompanied by the report of the Board of Auditors. In order to discharge the Secretary General from responsibility for the management of the financial year in question, the Statutory Committee shall transmit to the Committee of Minister to the annual accounts, together with its approval or any comments, and the report drawn up by the Board of Auditors.
5. The Financial Regulations of the Council of Europe shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the adoption and management of the budget.
Article 19-Secretariat 1. The Greco shall be assisted by a secretariat provided by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
2. The Greco ' s Secretariat shall be headed by an Executive Secretary appointed by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
Article 20-Amendments I. The Greco or any of its members may in this it proposes amendments to the Statute Statutory Committee.
2. This Statute may be amended by the Statutory Committee by unanimous decision of the. If the amendment has not been proposed by the Greco, the latter shall be consulted by the Statutory Committee.
Article 21 — Attention l. Subject to the applicable provision of the international legal instruments mentioned in article 2, paragraph 2 above, any member may withdraw from the Greco by means of a declaration addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe by the Minister for Foreign Affairs or a diplomatic representative who shall be given specific powers to this effect.
2. The Secretary General shall acknowledg in receipt of the declaration and inform the member concerned that it will be submitted to the Statutory Committee.
3. By analogy with article 7 of the Statute of the Council of Europe, the withdrawals shall take effect:-at the end of the financial year in which it is notified, if the notification is given during the first nine months of the financial year are;
— at the end of the next financial year, if the notification is given in the last three months of the financial year.
4. In accordanc with article 18 of the Financial Regulations of the Council of Europe, the Statutory Committee shall examin the financial consequences of the attention and make the appropriate arrangements.
5. The Secretary General shall immediately inform the member concerned of the consequences for it of its attention and keep the Statutory Committee informed of the outcome.
1 On 19 May 1999, Poland notified its wish to join the Greco.
2 these States are the following: Belarus (10), Canada (11), Holy See (10), Japan (10), Mexico (10), and United States of America (11). Bosnia and Herzegovina has participated twice in GMC meetings.
3 Only votes "in favour" or "against" are taken into account when counting the number of votes cast (article 10 paragraph 5 of the rules of Procedure of the Minister ' Deput).
 
The European Council agreement on the transnational group against corruption (GRECO) establishment of resolution (99) 5 (adopted 1 May 1999) of the Committee of Ministers, representatives from Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
Being convinced that corruption is the main threat to the maintenance of law, democracy, human rights, fairness and social justice, can impede economic development and endangers the stability of democratic institutions and the moral foundations of society;
Conscious of the need to enhance cooperation between countries in the fight against corruption, including its links with organised crime and money laundering;
Stressing that successful anti-corruption strategy is required to ensure a strong national commitment to unite their forces, share experience and conduct joint activities;
Recognizing that public vigilance and promoting ethical values are an effective means for the prevention of corruption;
Having regard to the European Conference of Ministers of Justice XIX (Malta, 1994) recommendations;
Taking into account the Programme of action against corruption, which was adopted in 1996, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, and that its implementation is done in the Multidisciplinary Group on Corruption (GMC);
In the light of the results, which have joined the European Commission (PHARE programme) and the Council of Europe project on corruption and organised crime in States in transition (project "Octopus");
Having regard to resolution No. 1 on the links between corruption and organised crime, adopted by the European Ministers of Justice of the XXI Conference (Prague, 1997);
Having regard to the final Declaration, which was adopted by the European Council of Heads of State and Government at the second Summit in Strasbourg during 1997 on October 10 and 11, and in which the head of State and Government decided to look for joint solutions to the difficulties that cause corruption and organised crime;
In accordance with the action plan adopted by the European Council of Heads of State and Government at their second Summit in Strasbourg 1997 October 10 and 11, and in which the head of State and Government, with a view to enhance cooperation in the fight against corruption, including its links with organised crime and money laundering, inter alia, instructions were given to the Committee of Ministers to draw up management principles of national legislation and practical measures to improve the as well as to establish immediately an appropriate and effective mechanism to control the leading principles and other international instruments, which will be adopted in accordance with the Programme of action against corruption;
Given the twenty leading principles in the fight against corruption, which the Committee of Ministers confirmed in his 101.1997 meeting, November 6 (hereinafter referred to as "the leading principles");
Being convinced that the establishment of the Greco, in which Council of Europe Member States and States which are not Member States, cooperate on equal footing, it will contribute substantially to the promotion of a dynamic process, with a view to effectively preventing and combating corruption;
Being convinced that using mutual assessment and pressure Member States, Greco will be able to flexibly and effectively control the leading principles of the Council of Europe and other international instruments adopted to fight corruption;
Being convinced that full membership should therefore be reserved for the Greco countries which participate without restriction in the mutual evaluation procedures and accept their assessment that is made with the help of this procedure;
Having regard to resolution (98) 7 of the Committee of Ministers which adopted 5 May 1998 in his 102. session at ministerial level and which was approved this agreement;
THIS DECIDES to establish a transnational group against corruption (GRECO), using this extended partial agreement which governed the statute annexed thereto;
Agree that Greco initially established for a period of three years;
Agree to review the functioning of Greco said initial three years of the end of the period;
Expresses its desire to all the Member States of the Council of Europe join Greco in the near future.
Annex to resolution (99) 5 transnational group against corruption (GRECO) article 1 – statute of Greco the aim of transnational group against corruption (hereinafter referred to as the "Greco") is to improve the ability of Member States to fight corruption, the dynamic mutual evaluation process and pressure the Member States, those Member States accepted the obligations.
Article 2 — Greco functions in order to achieve the objectives specified in article 1, Greco: i. controls the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 1997 on November 6, the leading principles approved in the fight against corruption;
II. control of international legal instruments to be adopted in accordance with the Programme of action against corruption, the implementation of the compliance with the conditions laid down in those instruments.
Article 3 — location of the Greco is Strasbourg.
Article 4: procedure for accession to Greco 1. any Member State of the Council of Europe, the report referred to the establishment of the Greco, may join in the Resolution of the Greco at any time by submitting the appropriate notification to the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.
2. any State which is not a Member State, but who has participated in this extended partial līguma1, may join the Greco at any time by giving notice to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. This notification must be accompanied by a declaration that the relevant public, which is not the Member State undertakes to apply management principles to combat corruption, which the 1997 6 November, was confirmed by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
3. States which become the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe action programme against corruption in the course of the implementation of international legal instruments adopted in the Member States, if these instruments provide for compulsory membership of Greco, Greco Member States becomes ipso facto in accordance with the provisions of these instruments.

4. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, which is limited by the enlarged partial agreement, following consultation of the Member States with those non-Member States, but which is already a member, may invite to join Greco other countries and non-Member States not covered by the terms of part 2. The country at the invitation of such receipt must notify the Secretary-General of its intention to join the Greco, communication by adding a declaration that that State undertakes to apply management principles to fight corruption.
Article 5: membership of the European Community, the Committee of Ministers may invite the European Community to participate in Greco. The following conditions of participation will be determined in the invitation in the resolution.
Article 6: the architecture of the Greco 1. each Member State shall appoint a delegation to the Greco consisting of not more than two representatives. One of these representatives is the head of the delegation.
2. From the extended partial agreement budget funded by one member of the delegation to the travel and subsistence expenses.
3. Representatives of Greco enjoys its privileges and immunities, which determines the General Agreement on privileges and immunities of the Council of the article 2 of the Protocol.
Article 7 – other representatives 1. European Committee for legal co-operation (CDCJC) and the problem of the European criminal-law Committee (CDPC) the meaning of each one representative Greco.
2. the Committee of Ministers, after consultation with the Greco may invite other Council of Europe bodies to appoint their representatives to the Greco.
3. in accordance with article 18 of the statutes of the Committee shall appoint its representative in Greco.
4. in accordance with parts 1-3 the appointed representatives participate in Greco plenary meetings without voting rights. Their travel and subsistence costs shall not be covered from the budget of the agreement of the parties, extended.
Article 8 — Greco Greco 1 action decisions that are necessary for its operation. In particular, it shall: i. support the assessment reports in accordance with article 15;
II. adopt its annual action programme and in accordance with the financial rules, submit proposals to the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe on the drafting of the annual budget, and then submit them to the Committee of the Constitution established in accordance with article 18;
III. approve its annual activity report, including the annual balance sheet and then submit them to the Committee and of the Statute the Committee of Ministers.
2. the Greco shall hold at least two plenary meetings a year and may decide to establish working groups, if it is necessary, in accordance with the rules of procedure.
3. the Greco shall be published each year in its annual report, including the annual balance sheet when it is approved by the appropriate authorities in accordance with the conditions laid down in article 18.
4. the Greco shall draw up its own rules of procedure. It is believed that any State or the European Community, joining Greco, accepts its statutes and rules of procedure.
5. the Greco shall hold its meetings behind closed doors.
6. Greco Member States participating in the mutual evaluation, is the voice of the law. Each of which has one vote. However, unless the articles of Association, the Committee has decided otherwise, a Member State which has not paid all their compulsory payment extended partial agreement budget in about two years, or a significant part of that payment, lose the right to participate in the decision-making process.
7. the Greco decisions are taken by a two-thirds majority of the votes in the presence of the voting member balsīm2 majority. However, decisions on matters of procedure can be adopted by a simple majority of the votes cast.
8. the Greco from voting shall elect the representatives of the Member States, the President and Vice President.
Article 9 — Office Is Office 1, composed of part 8 of article 8 of this President and Vice President and five other persons elected by the Greco of the voting representatives of the Member States, which, as far as possible, at least one of the international legal instrument, adopted in accordance with the Programme of action against corruption.
2. the Office shall perform the following functions: — preparing the annual work programme and the annual report of the pirmprojekt project.
-submit proposals to the Greco as regards budgetary pirmprojekt;
— organise country visits on the basis of the decisions taken by the Greco;
-submit proposals to the Greco on the composition of the special evaluation group;
— preparing Greco agenda, including the agenda, which will be discussed in the evaluation reports;
-submit proposals to the Greco as regards the provisions to be chosen assessment procedure under part 3 of article 10;
-submit proposals to the Greco on scientific experts and consultants.
3. the Bureau shall carry out any other function entrusted to it by the Greco.
4. the Office shall perform their functions in the overall supervision of the Greco.
Article 10-1 of the procedure for the assessment of Greco in accordance with the provisions of article 2, each Member State carries out the evaluation procedures.
2. the assessment is carried out in stages. The evaluation stage is Greco defined period of time during which the assessment procedure for determining the Member State compliance with selected provisions intended for the Pioneering principles and other international legal instruments adopted in accordance with the Programme of action against corruption.
3. at the beginning of each phase of the Greco shall select the specific provisions on which the evaluation procedure.
4. each Member State shall choose a maximum of 5 experts who will be able to run 12-14 articles.
5. each Member State shall ensure that its authorities give the maximum support to the evaluation procedure in their own national legislation.
Article 11-1 of the Greco Questionnaire for each phase of the evaluation confirms that the questionnaire is sent to all members to whom the assessment.
2. The questionnaire serves as the core of the evaluation procedures.
3. Member States are required to send their responses to the Secretariat within the time limits specified in Greco.
Article 12:1 appraisal group of part 4 of article 10 of the experts referred to Greco evaluation team established for each Member State (hereinafter referred to as the "group"). If the assessment relates to an international legal instrument, adopted in accordance with the Programme of action against corruption, Greco creates groups that consist only of experts of the Member States, which are the instruments of the Member States.
2. the Group examined the questionnaire responses and, where appropriate, of the Member State evaluated may request additional information to be provided orally or in writing.
3. the experts participating in the work of the group, the travel and accommodation costs are covered from the budget of the enlarged partial agreement.
Article 13-country visits 1. Greco may instruct the group to visit one of the Member States, in order to obtain more information on the national legislation and practices that could be useful in estimating.
2. the Greco shall notify the Member State concerned of its intention to organize such visits, at least two months in advance.
3. The visits are carried out in accordance with the programme drawn up by the Member State concerned, taking into account the expressed desires of the group.
4. the members of the group enjoys the privileges and immunities, which determines the General Agreement on privileges and immunities of the Council of the article 2 of the Protocol.
5. the travel and subsistence expenses necessary for the country to carry out the visits are covered from the budget of the enlarged partial agreement.
Article 14 — evaluation reports 1. based on the information collected, the Group prepares an assessment report pirmprojekt on the laws and practices of the State compared with the assessment phase, the selected rules.
2. The message pirmprojekt is transferred to the Member State evaluated for its comments. These comments are taken into account in the final group in designing the draft report.
3. the draft report shall be submitted to the Greco.
Article 15 — the discussion and approval of the report 1. Greco discusses the draft report submitted by the Group at its plenary session.
2. the Member State shall have the right to be evaluated orally and/or in writing to provide its observations to the plenary session.
3. After consulting the Greco approved a report on the Member States to be evaluated in making or not making it.
4. Each Member State shall have the right to participate in the voting for the approval of evaluation reports relating to the application of the principles of leadership. Only those members who, in accordance with the programme of action against corruption adopted the international legal instrument, the Parties shall be entitled to participate in the voting for the approval of evaluation reports relating to the implementation of the instrument concerned.
5. Evaluation reports shall be confidential. Unless it is decided otherwise, these reports are available only to members of the group, which has done an assessment, as well as the Greco statute for members, the members of the Committee and the Secretariat's members.
6. the Greco report may include recommendations that are addressed to the Member State evaluated in order to improve the national legislation and practices to combat corruption. Greco invited the Member States concerned to report on the measures taken to comply with this recommendation.
Article 16 — public statements 1. Statute of the Committee may make a public statement when it believes that one of the players takes the passive position or take insufficient measures in respect of the recommendations that it provides leadership in the context of the implementation of the principles.

2. the Statutes of the Committee, which consists of only those Member States which have international legal instruments concerned, may make a public statement when it believes that one of the members occupy the passive position or take insufficient measures in respect of the recommendations which it provides in the context of the implementation of any instrument adopted in accordance with the Programme of action against corruption.
3. Statute of the Committee shall inform the Member State concerned and gives it the opportunity to provide their comments before a decision on 1 and/or 2 public notice referred to in the provision.
Article 17 — the financial resources of the Greco 1. Greco budget is made up of its members annual mandatory membership fees.
2. the Greco may receive additional voluntary contributions from its members.
3. the Greco may receive voluntary payments from interested international institutions.
4. part 3 financial resources referred to in prior to their acceptance of the statutes must be approved by the Committee.
5. the Greco is obtained and maintained on behalf of the Council of Europe, and as such they enjoy the privileges and immunities in accordance with the current contracts are applied to Council funding.
Article 18 of the Statute the Committee 1 — terms of reference the Committee consists of the Ministers of the Member States of the Council of Europe, representatives of the Committee, which is also a Greco Member States, as well as from representatives that is designated for that purpose in other Greco members.
2. the statutes of the Committee annually determines the Greco members membership fee. Scale, under which certain countries that are not Member States of the Council of Europe, membership fees, are matched with the country concerned; as a general rule, these ratios correspond to the criteria set for membership fees for determining the size of the Council of Europe's general budget.
3. Statute of the Committee annually approves the expenditure budget of the Greco, which relates to the implementation of the programme of action and common secretariat expenditure.
4. the terms of reference the Committee annually approves the Greco annual balance sheet drawn up by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe the Council of Europe in accordance with the financial provisions and Statutes Committee together with the Board of Auditors report. To release from liability for the activities of the Secretary-General in the financial year, the Committee shall refer to the Statute the Committee of Ministers the annual balance sheet, together with its approval or comments, as well as the report of the Council of Auditors.
5. The financial regulations of the Council of Europe are applied mutatis mutandis to the approval of the budget and use.
Article 19-Secretariat 1. Greco action helps to ensure that the Secretariat is composed of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
2. the Greco Secretariat shall be headed by an Executive Secretary who shall be appointed by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
Article 20-amendments 1. Greco or any Member may submit proposals to the Committee on statutes amendments to these statutes.
2. Amendments to these statutes the statutes of the Committee can be made unanimously. If the proposal for the amendment has not been made, then the Statute of Greco Committee should consult with the Greco.
Article 21 — withdrawal 1. According to article 2 in part 2 of this international legal instrument relevant conditions, any Member may withdraw from the Greco, with the help of which the Declaration addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe and which shall be submitted to the Minister of Foreign Affairs or diplomatic representative, which in this context is given certain powers.
2. the Secretary-General acknowledges the receipt of the Declaration and shall inform the Member concerned for the statutes will be submitted to the Committee.
3. By analogy with the Statute of the Council of Europe, article 7 of the Declaration of withdrawal shall take effect:-at the end of the financial year in which the withdrawal was announced, if that statement has been filed in the year's first nine months;
in the next financial year, if the notification has been submitted for a given fiscal year in the last three months.
4. in accordance with the financial regulations of the Council of Europe, article 18 of the Statute, the Committee shall examine the financial consequences of the withdrawal and take the appropriate measures.
5. the Secretary-General shall immediately inform the Member concerned of its withdrawal effects and inform the Committee about the statutes in question result given.
1999. May 19, Poland announced its desire to join the Greco.
1 these countries are the following: Belarus (10), Canada (11), Georgia (5), Vatican City (10), Japan (10), Mexico (10), and United States (11). Bosnia and Herzegovina has participated twice in GMC meetings.
2 counting the votes cast, taking into account only those who cast "for" or "against" (rules of procedure of the Ministers ' Deputies on 5 of article 10).