In occasion of the International Anti-corruption Day 2017, the partners of the European Project ACTS, in collaboration with the Belgian Ministry of Economy and the International Chamber of Commerce in Belgium organized the event "Supporting SMEs against corruption", to discuss with EU insitutions and stakeholders the tools and actions to be taken from European SMEs to prevent corrution.
The overall objective of the ACTs project is to provide expertise and tools for combating the onset and spread of corruption in the private sector, with special focus on Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs). With its small size and lack of resources (e.g. well-staffed legal departments), the SME is particularly vulnerable to corruption risk, and unable to deploy effective strategies to defend itself.
This overall objective will be achieved through three specific, highly interconnected objectives.