International Federation of Consulting Engineers

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International Federation of Consulting Engineers
Speaker Neill Stansbury Co-founder and
Director GIACC Chairman BS 10500 Working Group
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British Standard BS 10500 Anti-bribery
Management System
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• BSI Standards is the UK's National Standards
  Body. It is the UK representative at the
  International Organisation for Standardisation
  (ISO).
• BSI has 31,000 current standards.
• Most popular global standards
• ISO 9001 Quality Management System
• ISO 14001 Environmental Management System.
• Both ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 began as British
  standards.
• BS 10500 Anti-bribery Management System was
  published in November 2011.

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Purpose and scope of BS 10500 (1)
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• BS 10500 is intended to help an organisation to
  implement an effective anti-bribery management
  system.
• Requirements of internationally recognised good
  practice in preventing bribery by and against
  organisations are taken into account.
• BS 10500 is applicable to small, medium and large
  organisations in the public, private and
  voluntary sectors.
• BS10500 cannot provide assurance that no bribery
  will take place in relation to an organisation.
  But it can help establish that the organisation
  has implemented reasonable and proportionate
  measures designed to prevent bribery.

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Purpose and scope of BS 10500 (2)
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• An organisation can obtain certification to BS
  10500 in a similar way to obtaining certification
  to 9001, 14001 and 18001.
• BS 10500 can provide assurance to board and
  shareholders.
• BS 10500 can be used as project pre-qualification
  requirement.
• BS 10500 is applicable only to bribery. An
  organisation may choose to extend the scope of
  its ABMS to include other criminal offences such
  as fraud, anti-trust/competition offences, and
  money laundering.

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Requirements of BS 10500 (1)
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• Anti-bribery policy
• Anti-bribery Management System
• Communicating the anti-bribery policy and ABMS
• Education, training and/or guidance
• Compliance Manager

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Requirements of BS 10500 (2)
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• Risk assessment
• Due diligence
• Implementation of ABMS by controlled
  organisations and business associates
• Employment procedures
• Gifts, hospitality, donations and similar
  benefits

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Requirements of BS 10500 (3)
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• Facilitation payments
• Delegated decision-making
• Anti-bribery contract terms
• Financial controls
• Procurement and other commercial controls

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Requirements of BS 10500 (4)
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• Raising concerns
• Investigating and dealing with bribery
• Documenting the ABMS
• Monitoring and reviewing the ABMS
• Improvement of the ABMS
• Guidance

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Certification to BS 10500
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• BS 10500 will be most effective if its
  implementation by an organisation is
  independently certified.
• Certification is possible by
• Existing e.g. 9001 certifiers.
• Auditors.
• New certifying organisations set up for this
  purpose.

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Cost of Certification to BS 10500
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• Cost of certification likely to vary materially
  according to the size of the organisation
  obtaining the certification.
• Cost is unlikely to be a competitive
  disadvantage. Likely to be an advantage if
• a procuring entity requires all its bidders to
  be certified to BS 10500 or
• additional points given in the procurement
  evaluation for evidence of anti-bribery policies.
  
• Cost of implementing ABMS likely to be minimal
  when compared to loss and damage which could be
  suffered by organisation which gets involved in
  corruption. System can help prevent loss.

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International Federation of Consulting Engineers
President Geoff French, UK Vice-President Pablo
Bueno, Spain Secretariat FIDIC World Trade
Center 2 Geneva Airport Box 311 CH-1215
Geneva 15 Switzerland Tel [phone]
49 00 Fax [phone]
fidic_at_fidic.org www.fidic.org Managing
Director Enrico Vink