Traduction de «acceptance bribes » (Anglais → Français) :

65. Stresses that bribery should not be concealed by the abuse of the term 'facilitation payments', which the OECD Convention considers acceptable under certain, specific circumstances (small payments, e.g. to get permission to unload goods in a port); calls on the Member States to agree to reject this notion, or to use it only in extreme situations, and calls on the drawing up of guidelines interpreting the notion in a uniform manner throughout the EU; underlines that neither bribes, nor facilitation payments can be tax-deductible; ...[+++]

The information available to the Commission at this stage points towards a case in which an official is said to have accepted bribes in return for passing on commercially interesting information to external companies.

It becomes very difficult for people, particularly public servants, not to accept bribes when their colleagues are being bribed.

[17] The Civil Law Convention on Corruption of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg 4/11/1999; European Treaty Series n°174) defines "corruption" as "requesting, offering, giving or accepting, directly or indirectly, a bribe or any other undue advantage or prospect thereof, which distorts the proper performance of any duty or behaviour required of the recipient of the bribe, the undue advantage or the prospect thereof".

One area in particular that I find really offensive is the area of citizenship officials, people who are put into a position of trust in the citizenship department and break citizenship laws by doing things like issuing false documents or false statements that apply to citizenship issues, or commit offences like accepting bribes or encouraging someone else to accept a bribe so that citizenship can be obtained falsely and fraudulently.

Large quantities of adulterated butter were seized, and there were numerous arrests and detentions in Italy and France. The enquiries carried out by the District Antimafia Branch (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Naples District Court (Procura della Repubblica presso il Tribunale di Napoli) and by the Italian Revenue Police (Guardia di Finanza: the Special Community Fraud Squad (Nucleo Speciale Repressione Frodi Communitarie) and the Caserta Provincial Command (Comando Provinciale di Caserta)) also made it possible to identify distributors of the adulterated goods, dealers, shippers, suppliers of the false invoices used to disguise the sale of the adulterated butter, and officials of the bodies resp ...[+++]onsible for supervising the industry who had accepted bribes.