Achievements
The 6th plenary meeting of the APEC Anticorruption and
Transparency Experts Task Force was held in Lima, Peru on 28-29th February 2008.
Under Peru's chairmanship, anticorruption and law enforcement officials from
APEC member economies met in Lima to discuss and approve the 2008 work plan
which focuses on the implementation of practical measures to combat corruption.
As part of the ongoing efforts to strengthen regional
linkages with other organizations, representatives from the OECD-ADB Initiative
for the Pacific, the World Bank, and Transparency International also attended
the meeting reaffirming the importance of mutual exchanges among these bodies to
progress the international anticorruption agenda.
As stressed in 2007, there is strong support to continue the implementation
of the APEC codes
of conduct for Public and Private sector. These principles,
already endorsed by APEC Ministers and Leaders and with the support of the APEC
Business Advisory Council in 2007, are now being considered by
the ACT which is examining the ways and means to develop practical measures on
these ethical codes of conduct aiming to improve corporate governance and public
transparency.
In October 2007, Peru organized a workshop, "the
Fight against Corruption is a Common International Responsibility: Strengthening
the Cooperation Mechanisms in the Asia Pacific Region" which
aimed to identify the impediments to the implementation of current mechanisms,
to discuss best practices and to identify areas for further cooperation.
In 2007 ACT made concrete progress on finalizing its deliverables that were
adopted and approved at meetings of APEC Leaders and Ministers in Sydney in late
September. They endorsed:
