Group of States Against Corruption

Founding members (01.05.1999):
Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

Joined subsequently:
Albania (27.04.2001), Andorra (28.01.2005), Armenia (20.01.2004), Austria (01.12.2006), Azerbaijan (01.06.2004), Belarus (13.1.2011), Bosnia and Herzegovina (25.02.2000), Croatia (02.12.2000), Czech Republic (09.02.2002), Denmark (03.08.2000), Georgia (16.09.1999), Hungary (09.07.1999), Italy (30.06.2007), Latvia (27.07.2000), Liechtenstein (01.01.2010), Malta (11.05.2001), Republic of Moldova (28.06.2001), Monaco (01.07.2007), Montenegro (06.06.2006), Netherlands (18.12.2001), Norway (06.01.2001), Poland (20.05.1999), Portugal (01.01.2002), Russian Federation (01.02.2007), San Marino (13.08.2010), Serbia (01.04.2003), Switzerland (01.07.2006), Republic of Macedonia (07.10.2000), Turkey (01.01.2004), Ukraine (01.01.2006), United Kingdom (18.09.1999) and the United States of America (20.09.2000)

Seat: Council of Europe, Strasbourg

Bureau Members: Mr Marin MRČELA (Croatia - President), Mr Christian MANQUET (Austria - Vice-President), Ms Helena LIŠUCHOVÁ (Czech Republic), Mr Aslan YUSUFOV (Russian Federation), Ms Vita HABJAN BARBORIC (Slovenia) and Mr Ernst GNAEGI (Switzerland).
Executive Secretary : Gianluca ESPOSITO

The Group of States against Corruption (French: groupe d'États contre la corruption, GRECO), the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption monitoring body with its Headquarters in Strasbourg (France), was established, in 1999, as an enlarged Partial Agreement by 17 Council of Europe member States.

GRECO, which is also open to non-European States, currently has 49 members, including two States that are not members of the Council of Europe (the United States and Belarus). Since August 2010, all Council of Europe members have been members of GRECO.

The GRECO Secretariat is located in the Council of Europe's "Agora" building completed in 2008.

GRECO’s objective is to improve the capacity of its members to fight corruption by monitoring their compliance with Council of Europe anti-corruption standards through a dynamic process of mutual evaluation and peer pressure. It helps to identify deficiencies in national anti-corruption policies, with a view to prompting the necessary legislative, institutional and practical reforms. GRECO does not have a mandate to measure the occurrence of corrupt practices in its individual member States. Other organisations/bodies are better equipped to deal with this important matter. A widely known example is Transparency International (TI), which issues annually a Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) - ranking more than 150 countries according to perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys.

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