gigiving, paying, promising, offering, or authorizing payment

09:41 Jan 25, 2014 

You may be right, but I'm only using an ENS ear to "read between the lines" of what I, personally, think an ENS writer may have meant, whatever (s)he wrote!

08:31 Jan 25, 2014 

Katja hat die Frage aufgeworfen, ob es in dem Text wirklich "OF" heißt oder doch "OR" heißen sollte.
Habe mich nicht vertippt, denn ich hatte den Text einkopiert. Das "OF" steht also im Originaltext.
Habe nochmals nachgeschaut. Der Satz mit dem "OF" ("of anything of value") kommt in dem Text sogar zweimal vor, einmal im systematischen Teil des Leitfadens und nocheinmal unter Frequently Asked Questions. Das "OF" kommt in beiden Fällen vor, scheint also KEIN Tippfehler zu sein.

20:37 Jan 24, 2014 

Nicht neu, aber immer wieder schwierig für unseren Berufsstand.

20:36 Jan 24, 2014 

Usually in this context the verbs all refer to *the payment* in the end, not just the last one.

19:27 Jan 24, 2014 

I understand it like this:
"...prohibits...()...from ***giving (anything), paying (anything), promising (anything), offering (anything) or authorizing the payment*** (OF any sum)..."

So it's not "paying payment", and the other "anythings" above can be just that - anything. The last one is clearly authorizing a payment (bribe, call it what you will).

This is in effect what Daniel has already said, in a slightly different form, and I hope it helps.

17:30 Jan 24, 2014 

make a payment - yes, give or pay a payment ????

16:18 Jan 24, 2014 

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korruption

"Gelder" kann man "zahlen"...

15:56 Jan 24, 2014 

Vielleicht kann man das so gruppieren:
giving -> anything of value
promising, offering, authorizing -> the payment or anything of value
paying = einfach so, nur einfach (aus)zahlen