The instrument contains three key elements:

• Dashboard;
• Country Summaries; and
• Information about the monitoring process.

The dashboard for monitoring the implementation of the Convention reflects the status of States parties based on the reports of the OECD Working Group on Bribery. The dashboard does not contain full information on the implementation of the Convention, illustrating only the data on what countries employ additional monitoring measures because of undue compliance with certain aspects of the Convention or concerns expressed outside the phased assessment process*.

For each country subject to additional measures, the dashboard indicates:

• Number of additional measured agreed upon by the Working Group at the current assessment phase;
• Number of recommendations/topics of the Convention subject to additional measures;
• Specific recommendations/topics that require the adoption of additional measures. For each of them, a graphic representation of the number and status of measures with regard to the relevant recommendations/topics is provided: yellow point(s) indicated the recommendation(s)/topic(s) with regard to which the adoption of measures has been pending for less than five years, the red one(s) — for over five years.

Brief country reports, in their turn, provide a more comprehensive picture of countries’ progress in their implementation of the Convention. In particular, the current monitoring phase and the date of its start along with the number of recommendations received in the current stage of assessment and their implementation status (fully implemented, partially implemented, not implemented, other) are indicated for each jurisdiction. If a country has been subject to additional monitoring measures, the section also contains the list of such measures, the recommendations/topics of the Convention they concern and their status (yellow or red point, as in the monitoring dashboard).

Finally, the section on the information on the monitoring process contains general data about what countries are parties to the Convention, monitoring phases, key stages of the monitoring at each phase and the list of additional monitoring measures which the Working Group can adopt.

*On each monitoring phase (since the launch of the Convention there have been four of them), the Working Group prepares a preliminary report as a first step. Such reports contain recommendations on how countries can improve their implementation of the Convention and related documents. Two years after the preliminary assessment, the Working Group compiles a follow-up report, where it assesses a country’s progress in implementing all recommendations. In the period between the preliminary assessment and the follow-up, the country is, as a rule, under regular control. At any moment since the preliminary assessment, the Working Group can adopt additional measures in the event that the country does not implement certain aspects of the Convention in a proper manner. The country can move to the next phase only when it has implemented all recommendations contained in the follow-up report and if it is not subject to additional measures or all additional measures have been implemented.

This Portal also provides basic information on progress in the implementation of the Convention: the Profiles of the countries that are parties to the Convention contain data on the date of ratification of the treaty and current monitoring phase, as well as a link to the last report.