The High Authority at the 2026 OECD Global Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum

From 23 to 27 March 2026, the High Authority participated in the 2026 edition of the Global Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum (GACIF), organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Each year, the OECD Forum brings together leaders from government, civil society and the private sector to share new ideas, discuss best practises and exchange views on different approaches to combating corruption, to build on existing achievements and tackle future challenges together.

On the side lines of this annual Forum, the High Authority took part in a meeting of the OECD Network of Lobbying Regulators. The High Authority was able to discuss registration thresholds for lobbying activities with its counterparts and learn more about the new lobbying regulatory frameworks of Portugal, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Ukraine.

The Forum also provided an opportunity for members of the European Network for Public Ethics (ENPE) to meet and discuss the European Parliament’s recent adoption of the Directive on combating corruption.

To conclude the Forum, The High Authority took part in the meeting of the Working Party on Public Integrity and Anti-Corruption (PIAC), which allowed for pondering this years’ GACIF in light of the Anti‑Corruption and Integrity Outlook 2026, as well as discussing ongoing PIAC work.

The 14th session of GACIF, centred around the theme “The Integrity Advantage: Powering Competitiveness and Prosperity” explored how integrity and anti-corruption efforts could also serve as engines for performance, resilience and innovation. Several distinguished speakers took the floor to open the Forum: OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann, Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader Corona, and Thailand Deputy Prime Minister Borwornsak Uwanno.

The Forum was marked by the launch of the second edition of the OECD Anti‑Corruption and Integrity Outlook. Drawing on new data gathered through the indicators developed by the OECD to measure public integrity, the report assesses the strengths and weaknesses of national integrity systems. The 2026 Outlook finds that, despite the significant progress made by countries over the last two years, further improvements are still needed in the implementation of measures designed to ensure integrity. At the launch of the OECD’s 2026 Anti-Corruption and Integrity Outlook, Emmanuel Glimet, Section President at the French Court of Auditors, discussed France’s anti-corruption policy.

In this edition of the Anti-Corruption and Integrity Outlook, France demonstrates overall strong results in terms of public integrity. It notably stands out for the robustness of its strategic framework, its regulation of lobbying and its measures to prevent conflicts of interests, reaching compliance levels above the OECD average.