Countering Corruption in Organizations: Uncertainty of the Law on Necessary and Sufficient Preventive Measures and the Best Anti-Corruption Practices in Russian Companies

Abstract

The paper analyzes the shortcomings of Article 13.3 of the Federal Law «On Combating Corruption» that oblige organizations to take measures to prevent corruption. The legal design of Parts 1 and 2 of Article 13.3 of the Anti-Corruption Law are not coordinated with each other, which makes it difficult to fulfill the requirements laid down by the legislator. In fact, the imperativeness of Part 1 of the article is offset by dispositivity of Part 2, despite the fact that both parts are interrelated in meaning. At the same time, at the stage of law enforcement, both the organizations themselves and the prosecutors overseeing the implementation of anti-corruption legislation by organizations are uncertain about the necessary and sufficient set of the measures that are provided in Part 2 of Article 13.3 of the Anti-Corruption Law. The authors analyze the methods used by Russian organizations to ensure compliance with legislative requirements in the conditions of legal uncertainty of formulations. The paper gives the examples of the best practices in the field of anti-corruption applied in organizations. The authors propose the options for improving the normative and legal regulation of mechanisms for preventing corruption in organizations.