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In 2021, the European Commission presented a package of legislative proposals in the area of anti money-laundering efforts and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). One of them, a proposal on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing, became Regulation (EU) 2024/1624, adopted on 31 May 2024. Its detailed, directly applicable provisions will replace the minimum rules of the existing EU AML directives. Most provisions will ...

Despite reported endemic levels of corruption and state-embedded organised crime, as well as risks stemming from Russia's war against Ukraine, the European Union (EU) does not classify Russia as a high-risk third country for money laundering and terrorist financing. During the European Ϸվ's November I plenary session, the Commission is scheduled to make a statement on its potential listing as such.

Money laundering is how criminals convert the proceeds of crime into what appear to be legitimate earnings. Criminals are employing ever-more sophisticated methods, including digital and emerging crypto-currencies, to disguise the source of their money. The impact on society of criminality is difficult to understate. It has a significantly negative effect across the socio economic spectrum. Likewise, money laundering – a vital cog in criminal enterprise – has the potential to impact on the stability ...

In July 2021, the European Commission tabled a proposal to establish a new EU authority to counter money laundering and the financing of terrorism (AMLA). This was part of a legislative package aimed at implementing the 2020 action plan for a comprehensive Union policy on preventing money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The AMLA would be the centre of an integrated system composed of the authority itself and the Member States' national authorities with an AML/CFT supervisory mandate. It ...

Anti-money-laundering package

Kratki prikaz 16-04-2024

During the April II plenary session, Ϸվ is due to vote on provisional agreements resulting from interinstitutional negotiations on three related EU acts concerning money laundering and terrorist financing.

The Member States have drawn up their individual national recovery and resilience plans (NRRPs, or 'recovery plans') to benefit from the Next Generation EU (NGEU) recovery instrument and its main spending tool, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), and to emerge stronger from the COVID 19 crisis. To receive RRF funding, Member States must address at least a significant subset of the country-specific recommendations (CSRs) and foster the green and digital transitions, by achieving the milestones ...

The EU blacklist of high-risk jurisdictions for money laundering is being criticised for a lack of autonomy from the FATF lists, politicisation and lobbying, and lack of transparency. The paper shows four ways to change this. More autonomy from the FATF can be reached through grey listing or merging the EU money laundering list with the EU tax list. More transparency can be reached by involving NGOs or academics to do the listing. But all these lists only look at the framework of anti-money laundering ...

Crypto-assets defy existing regulations, calling for legislation to address the various risks they entail. As part of the 2021 legislative package aimed at strengthening the EU's anti-money-laundering and countering the financing of terrorism rules, the Commission proposed to revise the regulation on information accompanying transfers of funds to cover crypto-assets. During the April plenary session, the Ϸվ is scheduled to vote on the trilogue agreement found with the Council on the proposed ...

Plenary round-up – November II 2022

Kratki prikaz 25-11-2022

The highlight of the November II 2022 plenary session was the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the European Ϸվ, with the participation of the Prime Ministers of France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Russia's war against Ukraine again featured high on the agenda, not least with the adoption of a resolution recognising the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism, and a joint debate with a vote on regulations governing EU financial assistance to Ukraine. Political debates were held ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy first asked the United States (US) Congress and the White House to add Russia to the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism in April 2022. He has since extended the call to governments around the world. Both the US House of Representatives and the Senate have passed resolutions calling on the Secretary of State Antony Blinken to add Russia to the list, which he has so far refused to do. On 18 October 2022, the European Ϸվ held a debate ...