Activities of Lars ADAKTUSSON related to 2017/2203(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Cutting the sources of income for Jihadists - targeting the financing of terrorism (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on cutting the sources of income for jihadists – targeting the financing of terrorism PDF (464 KB) DOC (71 KB)
Amendments (19)
Amendment 14 #
– having regard to the G7 Taormina Statement of 26 May 2017 on the fight against terrorism and violent extremism,
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas a number of international non-profit organisations, charities and other foundations, some of them located in Gulf countries, act as a cover for abusive practices; whereas surveillance of these networks, which are often extensivethe transfer of funds and material to terrorist organisations; whereas surveillance of these organisations, their funders, and their activities , is therefore vital; whereas their support for the expansion of extremist Salafism in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe cannot be tolerated;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas leaked intelligence even suggests that institutions and individuals in the Arabian Gulf are providing financial and logistical support to ISIS/Da’esh and other radical groups, and whereas without this funding many of these terrorist groups would not be self-sufficient;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) takes the view that a preventive strategy based on the exchange of basic information among intelligence agencies is vital in combating the financing of terrorism; calls on Europe’s intelligence agencies to improve coordination by setting up a European counter-terrorism intelligence platform with an in-depth focus on the exchange of basic information; that platform will create a joint database for data on physical and legal persons and suspicious transactions; emphasises that the information concerned must include, inter alia, a directory of banks, financial institutions and commercial entities both within and outside Europe, as well as third countries which have shortcomings when it comes tofor identifying the source of financing and the dispersal of funds, among intelligence agencies is vital in combating the financing of terrorism; reiterates that those responsible for committing, organising or supportingthe financing, planning, preparation or perpetration of terrorist acts must be held to account for their actions;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
(c) maintains, as reiterated by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which has developed a strategy on combatting terrorist financing, that it is extremely important that information- sharing should be improved, and sped up, among financial intelligence units, and law enforcement and intelligence agencies within jurisdictions, among different jurisdictions, as well as in the private sector, especially the banking sector;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) calls on the High Representative to support the efforts of FATF and to prioritise countering terrorist financing, in particular identifying and working with Member States of the UN with strategic anti-money laundering and countering terrorist financing deficiencies;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) calls on the Member States to step up the monitoring of suspicious financial activities and suspicious organizations engaged in these kinds of activities, making it easier for law enforcement agencies to access suspiciousect transactions, taking account of the proportionality principle and the right to privacy; calls on the Member States to provide more training for and increase the specialisation of investigators in order to achieve that;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) notes the successful cooperation with the USA, and the usefulness of the information obtained, in the context of the EU-US agreement to share information from the US Terrorism Financing Tracking Program (TFTP); calls on the Commission to propose the establishment of a specifically European system in this area, to complement the current framework and address current shortcominggaps, particularly as regards SEPA payments, ensuring that a balance is struck between security and individual freedoms; points out that EU data protection legislation would apply to this intra-European system;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) calls on the High Representative and on the Member States, in cooperation with the EU Counterterrorism coordinator, to draw up a list of individuals and entities operating under opaque regimes and with high rates of suspicious financial transactions;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point j a (new)
(ja) calls on the High Representative to support the call of the UN Security Council on Member Sates of the UN to move vigorously and decisively to cut the flow of funds and other financial assets and economic resources to individuals and entities on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al- Qaida Sanctions List;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) calls on the EU Member States to establish a monitoring and clearing system to ensure that mosques, cultural associations and similar entities provide details of how the funds they receive are distributed, both within and outside the EU, and calls for all the transactions made by those sending funds to be recorded in a centralised database, set up with all the appropriate guarantees; calls for the introduction of mandatory ex ante monitoring of the source of money and its destination where charities are concerned, so as to prevent money being distributed maliciously or negligently for terrorist purposes;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l – introductory part
Paragraph 1 – point l – introductory part
(l) calls on the Member States to regulate hawalaprovide greater oversight of the hawala system of transferring money, and to regulate the activities of hawaladars (those who carry out the transactions), making it mandatory to declare to the authorities every transaction made using the hawala system, and emphasising that the aim is not to crack down on traditional informal money transfers, but on trafficking involving organised crime, terrorism or industrial/commercial profits deriving from dirty money; in this respect, calls for:
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l – point i
Paragraph 1 – point l – point i
(i) all intermediaries and/or individuals, known as hawaladars, involved in said activity (controllers or brokers, coordinators, collectors and transmitters) to be required to register with the relevant national authority;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point l – point ii
(ii) all transactions to be declared and documented in a way that facilitates transfer of information when requested;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – point n
(n) welcomes the proposal for a regulation on the import of cultural goods; calls on the Commission to bring in a traceability certificate for artworks and antiques entering the EU market and originating in territories or places controlled by jihadistany illegal armed non-state actors and other terrorists and groups that currently feature on the EU’s list of proscribed organisations; calls on the Member States to establish police units that are specialised in dealing with the trafficking of cultural goods, and to ensure coordination of those units across the Member States; calls on the Member States to make it mandatory for companies involved in art dealing to declare all suspicious transactions, imposing penalties – including criminaleffective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties, where necessary – for the financing of terrorism through negligence on the owners of companies dealing in art and antiques who become involved in the trafficking of such goods;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o
Paragraph 1 – point o
(o) calls on the Commission to look into the possibility of reforming the relevant regulations and directives with the aim ofenforce the regulations on financial transfers to ensuringe that financial institutions are required to ask for informationthe purpose of funding is part onf the reason why suspicious large-scale transactions are being made, with a view to monitoring the payment of ransoms to terrorist orgporting requirement, in order to determine the object and intent of large scale tranisactions;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on Europe’s intelligence agencies to improve coordination by setting up a European counter-terrorism intelligence platform with an in-depth focus on the exchange of basic information; that platform will create a joint database for data on physical and legal persons and suspicious transactions; emphasises that the information concerned must include, inter alia, a directory of banks, financial institutions and commercial entities both within and outside Europe, as well as third countries which have shortcomings when it comes to combating the financing of terrorism; reiterates that those responsible for committing, organising or supporting terrorist acts must be held to account for their actions;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to consider the cutting funding sources of terrorist networks a key priority as it constitutes an effective tool hampering the effectiveness of those networks;