African Union 4.2.1 Please complete the Check List below, indicating the date and place of signature, ratification and enactment/implementation of any of the listed standards and codes where applicable. Where a standard or code has been enacted with reservations, please indicate this and provide details of the reservations. Standards that need signing and/or ratification Standards and Codes Adopted/ Signed (include date) Ratified Enacted Date last reported Reservations/ Notes AU Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (2003) UN Convention against Corruption (2003) UN Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (1997) AU Abuja Treaty establishing the African Economic Community (1994) AU African Charter on Statistics (2000) OTHER APPLICABLE INTERNATIONAL OR REGIONAL TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS 1. 2. Standards that do not need ratification and Accepted Best Practices Standards and Codes Best Practices for Budget Transparency (2002) Adopted Notes Revised Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency (2007) Guidelines for Public Debt Management (2003) Code of Good Practices on Transparency in Monetary and Financial Policies: Declaration of Principles (1999) Core Principles for Systemically Important Payment Systems (2001) Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing, and the Forty Recommendations (2004) Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (2006) Anti-Bribery Convention (1999) Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative International Standards on Auditing Insurance Core Principles and Methodology (2003) Guidelines for Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises (2005) 27