Experience Sharing Workshop “The role of prosecution in the fight

against high-level corruption”

Collection of official data on corruption

offences

European Commission Home Affairs

Irina Stefuriuc, DG Home, Dir D —

Security, Unit D.3

25 June 2018

Need for data

• 2010: the European Council invited the Commission to develop indicators to measure efforts in the fight against corruption.

• Action Plan on Crime Statistics 2011-2015

• Pilot data collection started 2014

Data collection – categories of offences

1. 1 Bribery (Articles 15, 16, 21 UNCAC)

2. 2 Embezzlement, misappropriation or other diversion of property (Articles 17, 22 UNCAC)

3. 3 Trading in influence (Article 18 UNCAC)

4. 4 Abuse of functions (Article 19 UNCAC)

5. 5 Illicit enrichment (Article 20 UNCAC)

6. 6 Acts of corruption not recorded under the above categories

Data collection - indicators 1. a Number of opened investigations

2. b Number of persons involved in opened investigations

3. c Number of indictments

4. d Number of first instance convictions

5. e Number of first instance acquittals

6. f Number of other outcomes first instance (i.e. excluding convictions and acquittals)

7. g Total number of cases adjudicated first instance

8. h Number of final convictions

9. i Number of final acquittals

10. j Number of other outcomes (final) (i.e. excluding convictions and acquittals)

11. k Total number of cases adjudicated (final)

12. l Number of imprisonment / custodial sentences through final convictions

13. m Number of suspended custodial sentences through final convictions

14. n Number of pending cases at the end of the reference year

Pilot Data Collection - results

• 2011-2013 data collection published in January 2016. Update for 2014-2016 ongoing.

• Some notable differences between Member States: definitions of offences, availability of data, methodology for recording data.

https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/what-we-do/policies/organized-

crime-and-human-trafficking/corruption/docs/official_corruption_statistics_2011

_2013_jan16_en.pdf

AVAILABILITY TABLES

Co

un

try

1 1.1.

1

1.1.

2

1.2.

1

1.2.

2

1.2.

3

2 2.1

2.2

3 4 5 6 7

AT

BE

BG

CY

CZ

DE

DK

EE

EL

ES

FI

FR

HR

HU

IE

IT

LT

LU

LV

MT

NL*

PL

PT

RO

SE

SI

SK

UK E&W

Cases adjudicated

(first instance)

Cases adjudicated

(final)

Co

un

try

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n

AT

BE

BG

CY

CZ

DE

DK

EE

EL

ES

FI

FR

HR

HU

IE

IT

LT

LU

LV

MT

NL

PL

PT

RO

SE

SI

SK

UK E&W

EXAMPLES OF DATA

2013 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n

1 343 343 405 32 3 34 65 1 6 72 13 52 :

1.1.1. 78 78 57 19 1 20 45 0 3 48 1 44 :

1.1.2 265 265 348 13 2 14 20 1 3 24 12 8 :

1.2.1 343 343 405 32 3 34 65 1 6 72 13 52 :

1.2.2 0 0 0 0 0 0

1.2.3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 :

2 26 249 249 20 14 283 229 33 36 298 37 191 :

2.1 26 249 249 20 14 283 229 33 36 298 37 191 :

2.2

3 29 29 9 3 3 10 1 0 11 2 8 :

4 131 131 91 50 1 51 167 30 75 272 49 118 :

5 X X X X X X X X X X X X X :

6 6 6 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 :

7 509 509 506 85 4 0 88 242 32 82 356 64 178 :

Total

* 509 535 755 334 24 14 371 471 65 118 654 101 369

Croatia 2013

Germany 2012

2012 a aa b c d-g h i j k l m n

1 8173 : 302 25 77 404 131 114

1.1.1

.

(333) 914 : 24 0 5 29 5 4

(334) 1077 : 107 9 24 140 30 26

1.1.2 (331) 1026 : 16 4 3 23 4 4

(332) 1169 : 33 5 16 54 24 21 1.1.1

and/

or

1.1.2

(335) 1303 : 21 0 3 24 21 14

(108

e) 15

: 0 0 1 1 0 0

… 1.2.3 2669 : 101 7 25 133 47 45 6 2 7 8175 1373 2805 : 302 25 77 404 131 114

Lithuania 2014

Cases adjudicated (first instance) Cases adjudicated (final)

No

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op

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inve

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. of

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No

. of

con

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s

No

. of

acq

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. of

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s ad

jud

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No

. of

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. of

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fin

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con

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s

No

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. of

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ear

Bribery (Art. 15, 16, 21) 1237 1032 957 927 16 33 960 950 16 97 1047 80 24 152

of which Active bribery 1103 972 910 892 11 28 920 907 11 73 980 65 21 93

Passive bribery 134 60 47 35 5 5 40 43 5 24 67 15 3 59 of which Bribery of national

public officials Bribery of foreign

public officials / IOs Bribery in the

private sector Embezzlement (Art. 17, 22)

810 360 287 417 32 34 295 328 32 146 474 88 13 339 of which

public officials

private sector Trading in influence (Art 18) 65 37 26 20 2 3 23 22 2 8 30 3 1 23 Abuse of functions (Art 19) 58 146 103 114 50 19 133 145 50 94 239 26 7 167 Illicit enrichment (Art 20) 472 161 156 144 13 24 168 160 13 67 227 96 12 116 Other (please specify)

5 1 4 4 0 3 7 4 0 7 11 0 0 4 All corruption (total)

2647 1737 1533 1626 113 116 1586 1609 113 419 2028 293 57 801