4th GRECO Evaluation Round – A Team of Evaluators Visits the Principality

Following this visit, the team will write a draft report, which will be forwarded to the Monegasque authorities for comments.  This draft will then be studied at GRECO's next plenary assembly, for examination and adoption.

As a reminder, the commitments made by Monaco when it joined the Council of Europe in 2004 include the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption.  By ratifying this Convention in 2007, Monaco automatically became a member of GRECO.  The Principality thus joined the countries that are committed to actively combating corruption, taking part in evaluation work led by this Group and being evaluated itself by other country members.  The work of the Committee is based on mutual evaluations of the members that comprise it.  Since 2008, Monaco has been the subject of various evaluations in GRECO's 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd evaluation rounds. These joint evaluation rounds ended in December 2012, after GRECO had noted the "decisive advances" made by Monaco with regard to combating corruption.

The theme of the 4^th round, as chosen by GRECO, bears witness to the multidisciplinary nature of its functions and follows on from the 2^nd evaluation round, which covered public administration.

* "Members of Parliament" area:  Mr. Richard Ghevontian,Professor at the Universities of Aix-Marseille, Vice-President responsible for legal and statutory affairs, Director of Research at the Louis Favoreu Institute, Study and Research Group on Constitutional Justice (France).

Mr. Philippe Poirier, Chair of Research into Parliamentary Studies of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg, Coordinator of the Research Programme on European Governance at the University Of Luxembourg, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Collège des Bernardins & the University of Paris Sorbonne (CELSA) (Luxembourg.

"Judges and prosecutors" area:  Ms. Ria Mortier, President of the High Council of Justice, President of the Flemish Nomination and Designation Commission, Advocate General at the Court of Cassation, High Council of Justice (Belgium).

Ms. Muriel Barrelet, Judge of first instance, Regional Court of the Mountains and the Val-de-Ruz (Switzerland), member of the Administrative Committee of Judicial Authorities (the managing and representative body of the judiciary) and President of the Notarial Supervisory Commission.

Mr. Christophe Speckbacher, secretary.