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Consultation on changes to ECGD's anti-bribery and corruption procedures: Interim Response

ECGD’s consultation on changes to its anti-bribery and corruption procedures introduced in December 2004 closed on 18 June this year. The Department is grateful to all those who submitted representations.

The representations received showed clearly that interested parties had detailed and wide-ranging views. After carefully considering these, ECGD has reached a settled view on the appropriate underlying principles. On the key specific issues covered by the consultation, ECGD has identified certain provisional conclusions on which it is inviting comment from interested parties during a further round of consultation.

Please see links below to ECGD’s Interim Response to this consultation, draft documentation ECGD uses to underwrite business (Annex C) reflecting the proposed amendments, and a draft Final Regulatory Impact Assessment (Annex E) which sets out what ECGD believes to be the likely costs and benefits of its proposed changes as compared to the procedures in place in May or December 2004. These supporting documents are drafted to reflect the provisional conclusions set out in the Interim Response itself.

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• Letter to Consultees - 5 December 2005: Qualification of Representation (PDF 74.9 KB)

• Letter to consultees - 21 October 2005 (PDF 69.5 KB)
  
  

• ECGD's interim response (PDF 171 KB)
  
  

• Annex A (PDF 41.6 KB)
• Annex B (PDF 32.21 KB)
• Annex C (i)a (Word 158 KB)
• Annex C (i)b (PDF 180 KB)
• Annex C (ii) (Word 145 KB)
• Annex C (iii) (Word 209 KB)
• Annex C (iv) (Word 135 KB)
• Annex D (PDF 46.4 KB)
• Annex E (i) (PDF 83.1 KB)
• Annex E (ii) (Word 30.5 KB)

ECGD received 28 written responses to the consultation by the 18 June 2005 deadline. Below are copies of all representations received.

• Africa All Party Parliamentary Group (PDF138 KB)
• ABN AMRO (PDF 157 KB)
• Alstom UK (PDF 187  KB)
• Amicus (63.7 KB)
• BAE Systems (PDF 5.14 MB)
• British Bankers' Association (PDF 86.1 KB)
• British Chambers of Commerce (PDF166 KB)
• British Exporters Association (PDF 408 KB)
• BNP Paribas (PDF 42.8 KB)
• Campaign Against Arms Trade (PDF 116 KB)
• CBI (i) (PDF 3.97 MB)
• CBI (ii) (PDF 300 KB)
• Control Risks Group (PDF828 KB)
• Deutsche Bank (PDF86.4 KB)
• F&C Asset Management (PDF114 KB)
• Ford Component Manufacturing (PDF 96.5 KB)
• Institute of Public Policy Research (PDF67.6 KB(
• Kendall Freeman (PDF 111 KB)
• Mabey and Johnson (PDF45.4 KB)
• Mr John Burbidge-King (i) (PDF 60.5 KB)
• Mr John Burbidge-King (ii) (PDF 86.1 KB)
• Mr Michael Possener (PDF 348  KB)
• Publish What You Pay Coalition (i) (PDF 64.7  KB)
• Publish What You Pay Coalition (ii) (PDF 757  KB)
• Publish What You Pay Coalition (iii) (PDF 798  KB)
• Rolls-Royce (PDF 141 KB)
• Society of British Aerospace Companies (PDF 1.21 MB)
• Selenia Communications (PDF 182 KB)
• Société Générale (PDF 75.2 KB)
• Standard Chartered Bank (PDF 148  KB)
• The Corner House (i) (PDF 377
• The Corner House (ii) (PDF 139 KB)
• The Corner House (iii) (PDF 112 KB)
• The Corner House (iv) (PDF 169 KB)
• The Corner House (v) (PDF 49.8 KB)
• Transparency International (i)a (PDF 255 KB)
• Transparency International (i)b (PDF 200 KB)
• Transparency International (ii) (PDF 154 KB)
• Transparency International (iii) (PDF 119 KB)
• Transparency International (iv) (PDF 218 KB)
• Transparency International (v) (PDF 218 KB)
• Unicorn (PDF 155 KB)

ECGD held three meetings with consultees during the consultation period. Below are the minutes of these meetings.

• CBI (PDF 48.5 KB)
• F&C Asset Management (PDF 32.1 KB)
• Mr John Burbidge King (PDF28.1 KB)