## Modernizing the Legal Framework for Surveillance - An Integrated Surveillance Decision

_Policy Papers, June 26, 2012_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: June 26, 2012
- Series: Policy Papers

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### Summary
- This paper proposes a draft Integrated Surveillance Decision (ISD) for adoption.
- As part of broader efforts to strengthen Fund surveillance, the Fund is modernizing its legal framework to better support operations.
- In April 2012, the Fund’s Executive Board discussed "Modernizing the Legal Framework for Surveillance—Building Blocks Toward an Integrated Surveillance Decision".
- That April 2012 paper highlighted key weaknesses in the current legal framework for surveillance and provided proposals for addressing them.
- Most Directors agreed that introducing a new surveillance decision covering both bilateral and multilateral surveillance would help address these weaknesses.
- Directors in particular agreed with the general proposed approach to fill the gaps in bilateral surveillance through multilateral surveillance.

### Key proposals and objectives
- Introduce a new Integrated Surveillance Decision (ISD) for adoption.
- Cover both bilateral and multilateral surveillance under a unified decision.
- Use multilateral surveillance to fill gaps identified in bilateral surveillance.

### Context and timeline
- Executive Board discussion of the building-blocks paper occurred in April 2012.
- Publication date on the landing page: June 26, 2012.
- Chicago citation presented on the page: Modernizing the Legal Framework for Surveillance - An Integrated Surveillance Decision, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 0) accessed 8/28/2026.

### Subject focus
- Bilateral surveillance
- Executive Board decisions
- Integrated surveillance
- Multilateral surveillance
- Surveillance

*Source: Modernizing the Legal Framework for Surveillance - An Integrated Surveillance Decision (June 26, 2012).*

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