Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences under its domestic law, when committed intentionally, the promising, giving or offering, directly or indirectly, of any undue advantage to anyone who asserts or confirms that he or she is able to exert an improper influence over the decision-making of any person referred to in Articles 2, 4 to 6 and 9 to 11 in consideration thereof, whether the undue advantage is for himself or herself or for anyone else, as well as the request, receipt or the acceptance of the offer or the promise of such an advantage, in consideration of that influence, whether or not the influence is exerted or whether or not the supposed influence leads to the intended result.
Pogodbenica sprejme takšne zakonske in druge ukrepe, kot so potrebni, da v svojem notranjem pravu opredeli kot kaznivo dejanje neposredno ali posredno obljubljanje, dajanje ali ponujanje, če je to storjeno naklepno, kakršnih koli nedovoljenih koristi komur koli, ki trdi ali potrjuje, da je sposoben neprimerno vplivati na odločanje katere koli osebe, navedene v 2., 4. do 6. ter 9. do 11. členu, če je nedovoljena korist namenjena njemu ali komur koli drugemu, kakor tudi terjanje, prejemanje ali sprejem ponudbe ali obljube takšnih koristi ob upoštevanju takšnega vpliva, ne glede na to, ali je prišlo do vplivanja in ne glede na to, ali je domnevni vpliv pripeljal do nameravanega rezultata.