Compliance is still little represented in the public sector and in small companies. This subject was addressed by specialists during the closing panel of the seminar Compliance Programs: An Instrument for Encouraging Transparency, Governance, and the Fight Against Corruption, held this past 26th at the Superior Court of Justice (STJ).
On that occasion, Professor Eduardo Diniz, of the University of São Paulo (USP), said that only 14% of national companies have implemented some compliance program, and most of them are in the financial sector.
The professor also stated that the participation of the public sector in these initiatives is still little significant, and he suggested the creation of a culture for the adoption of these programs.
“Corporate education is needed to implement the initiatives. It is not enough to impose a duty on another; one must be certain that they will have the conditions to carry out these duties,” says the professor.
For Thiago Marrara, also a professor at USP, the available data on corruption and misconduct demonstrate the need to invest in the education of managers for the practice of compliance mechanisms.
Marrara cited figures from a recent study indicating that 76.7% of those convicted of administrative misconduct are public agents, and even so, when the subject is compliance, the discussion is generally focused on the practices and programs of large companies.
Another figure highlighted by the professor is that 99% of the more than 6.4 million companies in the country are microenterprises, which, like the public sector, do not have a consolidated practice of compliance.
“These microentrepreneurs already dominate part of government procurement, and one must know what to do with these companies, since we are accustomed to discussing anti-corruption practices only with large companies,” he declared at the STJ event.
The seminar was held by the STJ in partnership with Enfam and the FGV. It featured the scientific coordination of Justice Villas Bôas Cueva and of Professor Ana Frazão, of the University of Brasília (UnB).
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