TRACE organizes anti-bribery training workshops
throughout the world for its members. These half-day seminars feature local and foreign
business people and lawyers familiar
with the practical challenges of international commercial transactions.
The workshops are designed to provide attendees with the information
they need to navigate these challenges and comply with international
conventions and local anti-bribery laws. There is no charge for employees and intermediaries of TRACE member companies.
The workshops highlight recent bribery cases, and then quickly turn
to the practical matters intermediaries encounter in the course
of doing business. Among topics covered are:
What constitutes bribery under international
conventions and local law?
Are gifts, hospitality and travel ever appropriate
for government officials?
Responding to requests for inappropriate
payments.
The cost of ignoring anti-bribery laws:
criminal penalties and business cost.
Alexandra Wrage, President of TRACE, leads a discussion on anti-bribery compliance issues at the TRACE workshop held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on February 27, 2006. More than sixty employees and contractors of TRACE member companies in the oil and gas industry attended the workshop.