The Bribery Act 2010 and the UK anti-corruption regime are the topics for an Informa training course in central London on December 15….
The UK is a signatory to the UN Convention against bribery and corruption. However, it has been under sustained international pressure for years to update its legal framework, much of it over 80 years old. The 2010 Bribery Act is the resulting response and arguably say event organisers one of the most formidable legislative attacks on bribery and corruption anywhere.
Every part of corporate UK is affected along with the Act’s extra-territorial impact on all non-UK entities operating in the UK.
This interactive course highlights the risks that corruption poses to business; what the international and UK response is seeking to achieve and how individual firms can protect themselves against an increasingly coordinated bribery and corruption framework.
Non-compliant firms risk exclusion from domestic and EU procurement contracts, regulatory penalties and fines, while individuals risk fines, imprisonment and regulatory sanctions. This course provides firms with ways of developing systems and controls which constitute the ‘adequate procedures’ defence under the new Bribery Act.
