Transparency International (TI) introduced the Business Principles for Countering Bribery in 2002, primarily for large companies. Since then, the Business Principles have become recognized as a leading anti-bribery standard and a model for anti-bribery programmes. An edition of the Business Principles more relevant to small- and medium-sized businesses
(SMEs) has now been developed, together with guidelines which give practical advice to those organizations with limited resources of time, money and people, helping them through the process of developing an anti-bribery strategy to suit their size and structure.