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Mechanism for Follow-Up on Implementation of the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption MECHANISM FOR FOLLOW-UP ON OEA/Ser.L. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN SG/MESICIC/doc.479/16 rev. 4 CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION 15 September 2016 Original: Spanish Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the Committee of Experts September 12-16, 2016 Washington, DC MEXICO FINAL REPORT (Adopted at the September 15, 2016 plenary session) SUMMARY This report contains the comprehensive review of the implementation in Mexico of the recommendations that were made to it in the Second Round in connection with Article III (5) and (8) of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption, in relation, respectively, to systems of government hiring and procurement of goods and services, and systems for protecting public servants and private citizens who, in good faith, report acts of corruption, as well as classification of the acts of corruption envisaged in Article VI thereof, including references, as appropriate, to new developments in the implementation of those provisions. The report also includes a comprehensive analysis of the implementation in Mexico of Article III (3) and (12) of the Convention, which concerned, respectively, measures to create, maintain, and strengthen instruction to government personnel to ensure proper understanding of their responsibilities and the ethical rules governing their activities, and the study of further preventive measures that take into account the relationship between equitable compensation and probity in public service, which were selected by the MESICIC Committee of Experts for the Fifth Round, likewise including references to best practices reported by the state in the implementation of the provisions selected for the second and fifth rounds. The review was conducted in accordance with the Convention, the Report of Buenos Aires, the Committee’s Rules of Procedure, and the methodologies it has adopted for conducting on-site visits and for the Fifth Round, including the criteria set out therein for guiding the review based on equal treatment for all state parties, functional equivalence, and the common purpose of both the Convention and the MESICIC of promoting, facilitating, and strengthening cooperation among the state parties in the prevention, detection, punishment, and eradication of corruption. The review was carried out mainly taking into account Mexico’s response to the questionnaire and information gathered during the on-site visit to that state from April 5 to 7, 2016, by representatives of Brazil and Haiti. With the support of the Technical Secretariat of MESICIC, during that visit, the information furnished by Mexico was clarified and supplemented with the opinions of civil society and private sector organizations on the issues under review. With regard to the implementation of the recommendations that were formulated to Mexico in the report from the Second Round and with respect to which the Committee, in the Third Round report, found required additional attention, based on the methodology for the Fifth Round and bearing in mind the information provided in the response to the questionnaire and during the on-site visit, the Committee made a determination as to which of those recommendations had been satisfactorily implemented, which required additional attention, which should be reframed, and which were no longer valid. Among the advances in implementing those recommendations, the Committee notes the enactment, on July 2016, of secondary laws of the National Anticorruption System, derived from the Anti- Corruption Amendment to the Constitution, published in the Official Gazette of the Federation in May 2015, as well as the National Development Plan for 2013-2018 published in May 2013 and the Program for Accessible and Modern Government for 2013-2018, published in August 2013. Furthermore, it is relevant to highlight enactment of the General Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information of May 2015, which among other aspects provides the bases and information of public interest which those legally bound to report must disseminate proactively as stipulated by said Law. -ii- Specifically with respect to government hiring systems, it is important to highlight the Professional Career Service Program in the Federal Public Administration for 2016-2018, published in February 2016 and which takes into account, among others, the recommendations made by the Committee in the framework of the Second Round; the September 2007 Regulations for the Law on Professional Career Service in the Federal Public Administration; the Agreement whereby the Provisions on Human Resources and Professional Career Service are issued; the Administrative Handbook of General Application for Human Resources and Organizations; and the Professional Career Service Handbook of July 2010 amended in February 2016. In addition, the legal actions and other kinds of action that the legislative and judicial branches have undertaken to strengthen their respective hiring systems are also noteworthy, such as the initiatives to standardize the administrative legal framework in terms of human resources promoted by both Houses of the Congress of the Union, and General Agreement 21/2012 of the Plenary of the Federal Judicature Council, on the Judicial Internships Program in the Courts Overseen by the Federal Judicature Council, to cite a few. Regarding the government procurement systems of goods and services, Mexico has also been advancing with legislative efforts to strengthen this system, among which there are the following: the Federal Public Procurement Anti-Corruption Law of June 2012; the August 2015 Agreement whereby the protocol for public procurement actions and for granting and extending licenses, permits, authorizations, and concessions was issued; the amendments to the Law on Public Sector Purchases, Leases, and Services and to the Law on Public Works and Related Services, as well as the Regulations for both Laws published in July 2010; and the implementation of version 5.0 of the Government Public Information Electronic System—CompraNet in July 2010. As for the public procurement systems of the legislative and judicial branches of government, the Committee notes the new September 2012 Senate Provisions for Purchasing, Leasing, Services, and Public Works, as well as the September 2008 General Administration Agreement VI/2008 of the Governance and Administration Committee of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and the General Agreement of the Plenary of the Federal Judiciary Council, which sets forth provisions for the administrative activities of the Council itself, published in January 2015. As for protecting those reporting acts of corruption, the report refers, among other developments, to the Federal Program and Center for the Protection of Persons, established in line with the June 2012 Federal Law for the Protection of Persons Involved in Criminal Proceedings, as well as the applicable provisions of the General Law on Administrative Responsibilities published recently on July 2016. With respect to acts of corruption as provided for in Article VI of the Convention, the Anti- Corruption Amendment to the Constitution and secondary laws derived from it, are noteworthy, as well as the amendments and additions to the various provisions of the Federal Criminal Code with respect to anti-corruption and the administrative responsibilities of public servants, their obligations, the sanctions applicable to the acts or omissions they commit, and the corresponding responsibilities of private individuals in connection with the above as a result of the above-mentioned Amendment. Some of the recommendations formulated in the Second and that are still pending are aimed at adopting comprehensive regulations to protect government officials and private individuals who, in good faith, report acts of corruption, including the protection of their identity, in line with the Constitution and the basic principles of Mexico’s legal system. -iii- In addition, regarding the new developments in Mexico with respect to implementing the provisions of the Convention selected for the Second Round, the Committee has made recommendations on the following aspects: conducting a review about the reasons why the Federal Public Administration is not attracting suitable, qualified applicants in their public recruitment invitations; holding campaigns promoting and disseminating job opportunities aimed at attracting more applicants and motivating them to apply for a government job; adopting measures and mechanisms to ensure adequate measurement and monitoring that would make it possible to conduct comprehensive periodic assessments about the use and effectiveness of the Federal Law against Corruption in Government Hiring; specifying the systems of exceptions for government bidding processes and regulating with greater accuracy the procedures for directly awarding contracts; and assessing the possibility of eliminating financial compensation for the services provided by social witnesses, among other recommendations. For the review of the first provisions selected for the Fifth Round that refer to instructions to government personnel to ensure proper understanding of their responsibilities and the ethical rules governing their activities, as set out under Article III, paragraph 3, of the Convention, according to the methodology of the present Round, the country under review chose the staff of the Public Service Secretariat, the Chief Audit Office of the Federation, and the Federal Judiciary Council, because it deemed that their institutional and legal development
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