Passive corruption definition

Passive corruption means the deliberate action of an official, who, directly or through an intermediary, requests or receives advantages of any kind whatsoever, for himself or for a third party, or accepts a promise of such an advantage, to act or refrain from acting in accordance with his duty or in the exercise of his functions in breach of his official duties in a way which damages or is likely to damage the EU's financial interests.

Passive corruption means the deliberate action of an official who, directly or through an intermediary, requests or receives advantages of any kind whatsoever, for himself or for a third party, or accepts a promise of such an advantage, to act or refrain from acting in accordance with his duty or, in the exercise of his functions in breach of his official duties in a way which damages or is likely to damage the financial interests of the European Union.

Passive corruption means the deliberate action of an official, who, directly or through an intermediary, requests or receives advantages of any kind whatsoever, for himself or for a third party, or accepts a promise of such an advantage, to act or refrain from acting in accordance with his duty or in the exercise of his functions in breach of his official duties, which has, or would have, the effect of harming the EU's financial interests. "Active corruption" shall mean the deliberate action of whosoever promises or gives, directly or through an intermediary, an advantage of any kind whatsoever to an official, for himself or for a third party, to act or refrain from acting in accordance with his duty or in the exercise of his functions in breach of his official duties, which has, or would have, the effect of harming the EU's financial interests.

Examples of Passive corruption in a sentence

• Passive corruption is defined as the deliberate action of an official, who, directly or through an intermediary, requests or receives advantages of any kind whatsoever, for himself or a third party, or accepts a promise of such advantage, to act or to refrain from acting in accordance with his duty or in the exercise of his functions in breach of his official duties in a way which damages or is likely to damage the European Communities’ financial interests.

• Passive corruption is defined as the deliberate action of an official, who, directly or through an intermediary, requests or receives advantages of any kind whatsoever, for himself or a third party, or accepts a promise of such advantage, to act or to refrain from acting in accordance with his duty or in the exercise of his functions in breach of his official duties in a way which damages or is likely to damage the European Union’s financial interests.

• Passive corruption is defined as the deliberate action of an offici- al, who, directly or through an intermediary, requests or receives advantages of any kind whatsoever, for himself or a third party, or accepts a promise of such advantage, to act or to refrain from acting in accordance with his duty or in the exercise of his functions in breach of his official duties in a way which damages or is likely to damage the European Union’s financial interests.

• Passive corruption is, for a public or private person, the acceptance of a gift, remuneration or advantage to carry out or abstain from carrying out an act of his/her office, duty, mandate, or the abuse of his/her office, duty or mandate granted by this function.

• Passive corruption is defined as the deliberate action of an official, who, directly or through an intermediary, requests or receives advantages of any kind whatsoever, for himself or a third party, or accepts a promise of such advantage, to act or to refrain from acting in accordance with his duty or in the exercise of his functions in breach of his official duties in a way which damages or is likely to damage the EU's financial interests.

• Passive corruption, traffic of influence, bribery and similar offences cannot be considered as acts committed in the lawful exercise of judicial functions.

• The Second Protocol only targets national or Community officials with responsibilities in the management of Community funds; under it, Member States are required to establish corruption as a criminal offence to the extent that it ‘damages or … is likely to damage the EC’s financial interests’ (Article 2, Passive corruption, Article 3, Active corruption).

• Passive corruption or “passive bribery” is defined by U4 as “the offence committed by the official who receives the bribe”.

• Passive corruption means, in particular, the acceptance of a benefit for the purpose of influencing a particular decision.

• Passive corruption is the soliciting or receiving of an undue advantage of any kind by a person in order that that person perform an act in the course of his or her business activities.

More Definitions of Passive corruption

Passive corruption means the conduct referred to in Article 2 of the Protocol drawn up on the basis of

Passive corruption means the act of receiving from a third party, directly or indirectly, the same type of advantage with the same intent.

Passive corruption means the conduct referred to in Article 2 and "active corruption" shall mean the conduct referred to in Article 3 of the (...) Protocol to the Convention on the protection of the European Communities' financial interests, drawn up in Brussels by the Council Act of 27 September 1996(5);

Passive corruption means the conduct referred to in Article 2 of the Protocol drawn up on the basis of Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union to the convention on the protection of the European Communities’ financial interests, of 27 September 1996 (1),

Passive corruption means the deliberate action of an official, who, directly or through an intermediary, requests or receives advantages of any kind whatsoever, for himself or for a third party, or accepts a promise of such an advantage, to act or refrain from acting in accordance with his duty or in the exercise of his functions in breach of his official duties in a way which damages or is likely to damage the EU's financial interests. "Conflict of interest" shall be deemed to be present in any situation that could cast doubt on the ability of staff to act in an impartial and objective manner for reasons involving family, emotional life, political or national affinity, economic interest or any other shared interest with a tenderer, applicant or beneficiary, or that could reasonably appear to do so in the eyes of an external third party. "Unduly paid" shall mean paid in breach of the rules governing EU funds. The "European Anti-Fraud Office" is the European Commission's specialised anti-fraud department. The Office has operational independence and is responsible for carrying out administrative investigations intended to combat fraud, corruption and any other illegal activity adversely affecting the EU's financial interests, as provided for in Commission Decision of 28 April 1999 establishing the European Anti-Fraud Office, Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999 concerning investigations by the European Anti-Fraud Office and Council Regulation (Euratom, EC) No 2185/96 of 11 November 1996 concerning on-the-spot checks and inspections carried out by the Commission in order to protect the European Communities' financial interests against fraud and other irregularities. "Financing governmental agency" shall mean the appropriate executive authority of Ukraine, which received financial resources from the EU with the aim to implement EU financial assistance.