Spain:
Declaration contained in a letter from the Permanent Representative of Spain registered at the Secretariat General with the deposit of the instrument of ratification, on 28 April 2010 - Or. Engl.
In accordance with Article 29 of the Convention, the Government of Spain designates as the central authority for the purposes of this Convention:
Subdireccion General para Asuntos de Justicia
en la Union Europea y OO.II.
(Sub-Directorate General of Legal Affairs of the European Union and Organisation International
Directorate General for International Legal Cooperation of the Ministry of Justice)
Calle San Bernardo, 62
C.P. 28071 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 390 44 72/44 10
Period covered: 1/8/2010 -
The preceding statement concerns Article(s): 29
Reservation contained in the instrument of ratification deposited on 28 April 2010 - Or. Engl.
In accordance with Articles 17, paragraph 2, and 37, paragraph 2, of the Convention, the Kingdom of Spain reserves itself the right not to apply Article 17, paragraph 1.b, and to request therefore the requirement of dual punishability for the prosecution of offences committed abroad by its nationals.
Period covered: 1/8/2010 -
The preceding statement concerns Article(s): 17, 37
Declaration contained in the instrument of ratification deposited on 28 April 2010 - Or. Engl.
If this Convention were to be extended by the United Kingdom to Gibraltar, Spain would like to make the following declaration:
1. Gibraltar is a non-autonomous territory whose international relations come under the responsibility of the United Kingdom and which is subject to a decolonisation process in accordance with the relevant decisions and resolutions of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
2. The authorities of Gibraltar have a local character and exercise exclusively internal competences which have their origin and their foundation in a distribution and attribution of competences performed by the United Kingdom in compliance with its internal legislation, in its capacity as sovereign State on which the mentioned non-autonomous territory depends.
3. As a result, the eventual participation of the Gibraltarian authorities in the application of this Convention will be understood as carried out exclusively as part of the internal competences of Gibraltar and cannot be considered to modify in any way what was established in the two previous paragraphs.
Period covered: 1/8/2010 -
The preceding statement concerns Article(s): -
Sweden:
Communication contained in the instrument of ratification deposited on 25 June 2004 - Or. Engl.
Sweden makes the explanatory statement that, in Sweden's view, a ratification of the Convention does not mean that its membership of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) cannot be reviewed if reasons to do so arise in the future.
Period covered: 1/10/2004 -
The preceding statement concerns Article(s): -
Reservation contained in the instrument of ratification deposited on 25 June 2004 - Or. Engl.
Sweden makes a reservation against the undertaking to introduce criminal provisions for trading in influence (Article 12 of the Convention).
[Note by the Secretariat: The Government of Sweden has informed the Secretary General of its intention to uphold this reservation, wholly, for a period of three years (Article 38 of the Convention):
- by a letter from the Minister for International Development Cooperation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, dated 19 March 2008, registered at the Secretariat General on 27 March 2008 - Or. Engl. - (Period covered: from 01/10/2007 to 01/10/2010);
- by a letter from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, dated 22 June 2010
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