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Sanctionable Misconduct in the Procurement Legislation of Azerbaijan journal article

Teymour Aliyev

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 14 (2019), Issue 1, Page 55 - 62

The Republic of Azerbaijan, as a young member of the Council of Europe, which ratified and implemented to its legislation the provisions of numerous conventions against corruption as well as other international agreements on combating transnational crimes, money laundering and other corruption-related misconduct, and by being a developing country and benefiting from loans and other funds provided by the World Bank Group (WBG), should substantially upgrade its anti-corruption legislation and especially in the procurement area in order to keep pace with fast changing international standards. Whilst the concept of corruption may be more or less universal both in the national legislation and international normative documents, the notions of fraud and other ‘corruption-related’ misbehaviour in laws of Azerbaijan should be clearly defined and advanced to match the definitions used by the WBG and other multilateral development banks. And when they are legibly defined, the grounds for the exclusion and debarment of bidders and contractors committing such misconduct and sanctions should be broadened and differentiated with an eye to ensure fairness of the procurement process and harmonization with regulations applied internationally. In this work the terms of corruption, forgery, fraud and coercion according to the national legislation of Azerbaijan and the WBG standards have been analysed and compared. Further, in order to demonstrate legal shortages and loopholes at the national level, the legal grounds for the exclusion and debarment of bidders committing corruption-related acts at procurement procedures in Azerbaijan and its champion company SOCAR, and the type of applicable sanctions, with comparison to the provisions of the suspension and debarment standards employed by the WBG, have been described. Finally, the author has tried to offer proposals on the elimination of regulatory gaps for the purpose of ensuring the effectiveness and fairness of procurement-related exclusion and debarment process in Azerbaijan. Keywords: Corruption-related Misconduct; Sanctions; Exclusion; Debarment; World Bank Group; Procurement legislation.

The World Bank Sanction System: Moving Towards a Present Responsibility Model journal article

Franco Peirone

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 1, Page 18 - 29

The article analyses the steps through which the World Bank could reform its sanction system by focusing more on corporate compliance efforts instead of issuing debarment at all costs. To accomplish this change the World Banks should set conditional non-debarment as the system default sanction – using debarment only as an extrema ratio – and make a more extended use of flexible, discretionary tools (administrative agreements, voluntary disclosure programme and mitigation measures) which foster corporate compliance. By putting corporate compliance at the forefront the World Bank would reach more integrity in its contract, increase competition among honest contractors and tackle better the performance risk.

Reforms under the World Bank Procurement and the Policy Implications for Developing Countries journal article

Fred Borson

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 12 (2017), Issue 2, Page 146 - 154

The World Bank is undergoing a major reform of its procurement policy which regulates the procurement of projects financed by the Bank. This reform represents a major shift from how the Bank used to operate, where it intends to move away from the current one-size-fits-all approach to a more fit-for-purpose approach. The Bank usually provides financial assistance for development projects and its procurement policies are significant for the general development community, especially those developing countries that rely on the Bank for financial assistance to implement major development projects. This paper examines the policy implications of the World Bank procurement reforms for developing countries, based on doctrinal and empirical research. It analyses the interaction between the World Bank regime and national systems, and highlights the implications for development policies in national systems. The research concludes that the Bank’s reforms represent a significant improvement in the way it used to operate and has the potential to support national development policies in certain limited respects. Largely however, the Bank’s procurement policies remain significantly complex and also limits policy space for the implementation of domestic policies. Keywords: Donors; Foreign Aid; Africa; Anti-Corruption; Development Aid; World Bank.

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