The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) of the Council of Europe recently published a report assessing progress made in Luxembourg concerning anti-corruption measures.
GRECO has now terminated its compliance procedure concerning Luxembourg and anti-corruption measures in respect of members of parliament, judges and prosecutors.
Back in June 2013, GRECO had released an evaluation report on Luxembourg including fourteen recommendations in this area. The body launched its compliance procedure in October 2017, when a further report concluded that Luxembourg's very low level of compliance with those recommendations was "globally unsatisfactory".
In an addendum to that compliance report, published in December 2023, GRECO concluded that Luxembourg has now satisfactorily implemented all but one of the recommendations.
The remaining recommendation - concerning the introduction of an effective system of monitoring and sanctions concerning breaches of the rules of the Code of Conduct for members of parliament - was found to have been partly implemented. GRECO deemed the measures taken so far in this area as "insufficient", in particular because the accuracy of declarations is not verified and no details have been provided on the means of parliamentary control.
GRECO is a Council of Europe body that aims to improve the capacity of its members to fight corruption by monitoring their compliance with anti-corruption standards.
The full report is available (in English) here.
