At the end of August 2024, the Attorney-General published its final guidance on adequate procedures to prevent the commission of foreign bribery. The guidance follows the passage of the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Foreign Bribery) Act 2024 earlier this year which introduced the new offence of failing to prevent foreign bribery, under which companies can be held directly criminally liable for the foreign bribery activities of their employees, external contractors, agents and subsidiaries, unless the company can demonstrate it had adequate procedures in place to prevent the bribery.