Thank you.
We appreciate that there are different tactics taken toward databases. Looking at the issues of a database to provide a source of information, you can have an administrative or regulatory regime. I think the message we're trying to clarify with the CFPOA, the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, is that this legislation is designed to put in place the penalties for when there is actually a bribe, and not to be addressing the regulatory and administrative procedures that companies would have to do for reporting in terms of the parallel mechanisms with taxation or things like this.
You did mention a question, though, that I wanted to come back to with regard to paying $20, or issues like that. Our legal adviser brought up the issue of mens rea.
What is happening now with our international treaties is that they've all put on states an obligation to criminalize the bribery of foreign public officials and other offences that are associated with that. So it's creating a norm, a practice, an enforcement.
But then the institutional civil society recognized that there are environments where you may be asked to do this, to pay a bribe. For Transparency International, when dealing with crisis situations, failed state situations, their approach is to have civil societies put in place mechanisms and risk assessments in monitoring and evaluation, and create transparency in their laws so that it's clear the company doesn't pay.
The reason, and we see this with companies, is that if you pay a little bit, you get targeted to pay more. Then you find yourself drawn in.