La prevenzione della corruzione nel sistema amministrativo: impulsi del diritto europeo e tendenze evolutive della legislazione italiana

In the last decades the International Community has shown an increasing attention for the phenomenon of corruption, both at the national and international level, because it is considered as an obstacle to the correct functioning of international markets and to the modernization of States. Major international organizations, such as the U.N. or the OECD, have promoted the stipulation of multilateral conventions or have adopted directives with which they have tried to promote the harmonization of the State’s criminal law. Along with the strengthening of criminal punishment, international institutions, in particular at the European level, have also solicited the introduction of tools of administrative prevention of corruption. The Italian legislation has adapted to these international requirements elaborating a complex legal model of prevention of corruption, which also provides for the creation of the national anticorruption authority.