At ten a.m., on Saturday 21/5/2016, at the meeting room in headquarters the Iraqi National Business Council, the Integrity Commission held a symposium, titled (“ Civil Society… Required Roles to Implement the United Nations Convention against Corruption”) in cooperation with the Iraqi Institute for Economic Reformation and the Iraqi National Business Council, after approving this convention by the Iraq Council of Representatives in Law No. (35) for the year 2007, as the Non-Governmental Organizations Law No. (12) for the year 2010 to emphasize the importance and activity of the these organizations in the new Iraq and the significance of taking their responsibilities in reorganizing the methods and modes of the social culture related to the works of sustainable development especially in the interim stages in a form that agrees with the new approach to built a democratic constitutional state of good governance, as Article No. (13) of the United Nations Convention against Corruption stipulates to encourage individuals and communities who do not belong to the public sector, such as civil society, NGOs and local community to participate in combating and preventing corruption and to raise public awareness in connection with the existence, enormity and danger of  corruption. There was a mention to the Integrity Commission Law No. (30) for the year 2011, Article (10)/Fifth, which stated the importance of the NGOs and established for them a special relation department that undertakes performing what is required to promote the culture of moral behavior in both the private and public sectors, related to the cooperation of NGOs through training programs and public outreach via media and others.   The session was chaired by Dr. Amir Hussein Al-Fayyadh/Dean of College of Political Science – Al-Nahrain University, while Mr. Dawood Abed Zayer presented a work paper about the concept of integrity and the method of applying it by the private sector, where he touched on the conflicting instructions, which the private sector is subject to, and the most of regulations  and instructions are unjustifiable and must be reconsidered or changed, as they create great impediments that lead to hindering the work progress. It is necessary to adopt electronic systems in order to avoid corruption and lay down regulations that will curb corruption.He mentioned. In order to eliminate corruption, the Central Bank of Iraq must use new systems that include entering the Iraqi currency notes into a banking system and converted into non-cash system and the dealing will be conducted in electronic cash instead of paper dealing, in order to follow up the expenditure of money in a safe and legal manner for every citizen and follow up suspicious money outside the electronic banking ash system, he added. Mr. Mazin Sahib Al-Shammari of Relations Department, delivered a lecture, in participation with NGOs and Integrity Commission, in which he explained the required mechanisms to activate participation in the obligations of United Nations Convention against Corruption through a study published in 2016, titled (Real Gaps and Challenges) in which the Transparency International indicated the challenges the civil society encounters in the Arab countries , such as the absence of democracy traditions, poor power distribution and sharing, poor governance infrastructures and sense of citizenship, the fragility of infrastructure and deformity of economic development and corruption spread. The activities that the civil society organizations may