Traduction de «Infraction relative au recyclage de l'argent » (Français → Anglais) :

41. Calls on the European institutions to send out a clear message at EU and international level with a view to curbing all forms of money laundering through the use of the financial markets, in particular by:envisaging possible capital control measures, as recently suggested by the International Monetary Fund itself; encouraging a reduction of the pervasiveness of the financial markets in the context of short-term operations; imposing increased transparency on the use of public funds, first and foremost on those to support private-sector development, and carrying out an effective offensive against tax havens by imposing country-by-country financial reporting on all multinational economic operators; promoting a multilateral ...[+++]agreement on the exchange of tax-related information whilst revising the definition of ‘tax haven’ and the list of these secret jurisdictions; calls on the Commission to draw up clear guidelines on the traceability of money so as to make it easier to identify cases involving the laundering of money deriving from illegal activities; calls on the Commission, with a view to its legislative proposal to update the Money Laundering Directive, to generalise as far as possible the criminalisation of laundering of the proceeds of crime and to establish a legal basis for the widest possible range of investigative powers in this area; calls, in this connection, for all the Member States to be required to criminalise ‘self-laundering’, or the laundering of illicit funds by the very person or entity having obtained those funds by unlawful means; also calls on the Commission, in its proposal, to consider the possibility of extending the criminalisation of laundering to cases where the perpetrator should have known that the assets in question were the proceeds of crime;

- Enforcement - to open, institute and prosecute proceedings involving offences relating to (a) provision of illegal/unauthorised gambling services; and (b) commercial communications relating to gambling services or operators (legal as well as illegal/unauthorised gambling services);

‘illegal money-laundering activities’ means the criminal offences listed in Article 6(1) to (3) of the Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime, signed in Strasbourg on 8 November 1990;

L. whereas the Commission announced in its Communication of 23 November 2005 an initial list of nine new areas to which it intends to apply the judgment of 13 September 2005 by securing the annulment of nine draft framework decisions drawn up by the Council in the context of cooperation on justice and home affairs, in order to implement the Communitisation of criminal law in the following spheres: facilitation of unauthorised entry, transit and residence, marine pollution, counterfeiting of means of payment, money laundering, computer crime, intellectual property and offences relating ...[+++] to the euro,

The Council Framework Decision of 26 June 2001 on money laundering, the identification, tracing, freezing, seizing and confiscation of instrumentalities and the proceeds of crime [40] provides that, in so far as the offence is punishable by deprivation of liberty or a detention order for a maximum of more than one year, Member States may not make or uphold reservations in respect of Article 2 of the 1990 Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime.

(8) It is necessary to introduce sanctions on perpetrators sufficiently severe to allow for trafficking in human beings to be included within the scope of instruments already adopted for the purpose of combating organised crime such as Council Joint Action 98/699/JHA of 3 December 1998 on money laundering, the identification, tracing, freezing, seizing and confiscation of the instrumentalities and the proceeds from crime(5) and Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA of 21 December 1998 on making it a criminal offence to participate in a criminal organisation in the Member States of the European Union(6).