Follow-up to the 4th round of GRECO recommendations relating to parliamentarians

Motion for a resolution | Doc. 16157 | 09 April 2025

Signatories:

Ms Heike ENGELHARDT, Germany, SOC ; Mr Gergely ARATÓ, Hungary, SOC ; Ms Petra BAYR, Austria, SOC ; Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN, Romania, SOC ; Ms Camilla FABRICIUS, Denmark, SOC ; Ms Sascha FAXE, Denmark, SOC ; Mr Fabian FUNKE, Germany, SOC ; Mr Gerardo GIOVAGNOLI, San Marino, SOC ; Ms Zita GURMAI, Hungary, SOC ; Ms Saskia KLUIT, Netherlands, SOC ; Ms Bisera KOSTADINOVSKA-STOJCHEVSKA, North Macedonia, SOC ; Mr Christophe LACROIX, Belgium, SOC ; Mr Dimitrios MANTZOS, Greece, SOC ; Ms Luz MARTINEZ SEIJO, Spain, SOC ; Ms Wanda NOWICKA, Poland, SOC ; Ms Valérie PILLER CARRARD, Switzerland, SOC ; Ms Filiz POLAT, Germany, SOC ; Mr Ivan RAČAN, Croatia, SOC ; Ms Azadeh ROJHAN, Sweden, SOC ; Mr Frank SCHWABE, Germany, SOC ; Ms Céline THIÉBAULT-MARTINEZ, France, SOC ; Ms Derya TÜRK-NACHBAUR, Germany, SOC ; Ms Gala VELDHOEN, Netherlands, SOC

This motion has not been discussed in the Assembly and commits only those who have signed it.

The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) focused, in its 4th round of evaluation, on members of parliament, judges and prosecutors. The recommendations and conclusions from that round were hugely helpful in improving ethical standards across the parliaments of Council of Europe member States, as well as other States that are members of GRECO. Now that GRECO moves onto its 5th and 6th rounds, there remains more follow-up to be done on the 4th round recommendations and conclusions in relation to parliamentarians.

In order to continue to champion the good work done by GRECO in this field and to ensure it has sufficient parliamentary follow-up, the Parliamentary Assembly should analyse the extent to which the GRECO 4th round recommendations have been followed up and implemented in relation to parliamentarians (as opposed to those relating to prosecutors and judges). It should then make recommendations for the Assembly and for national parliaments – both generally and for specific national parliaments – to ensure continued focus is given to this important theme and to raise parliamentary standards in combating corruption so as to protect and to improve public trust in our democratic institutions.