Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee – Participation of the European Union in the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (GRECO)

This Communication sets out how the Commission intends to step up cooperation between the EU and the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), following the Commission’s ‘anti-corruption package’ of 6 June 2011. It envisages a two-stage approach consisting first of a ‘full participant’ status based on Article 220 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU) that may, in a second stage, lead to full EU membership of GRECO.

That approach will allow cooperation to be increased, within a relatively sort time-frame, on the basis of full participant status and pending an analysis of how full membership, including evaluation of EU institutions by GRECO, would be organised in practice.

EUR-Lex: COM(2012)604: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2012:604:FIN

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