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16 Amendments of Harald VILIMSKY related to 2017/2203(INI)

Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to the European Parliament recommendation to the European Council and the Council on combating the financing of terrorism (2005/2065(INI),
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas money laundering, through credit institutions acting in collusion or investment in tax havens, helps to fund international terrorist organisations;
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the largest source of financing of international terrorism is international drugs and arms trafficking;
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas one of the main transit areas for drugs from Colombia is the coast of the Horn of Africa, with links to and through Libya and therefore in areas where there is a strong jihadi presence;
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas — as reported in November 2013 by the Italian Foreign Minister, Emma Bonino — trafficking in human beings finances criminal organisations with links to Islamic State and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and makes it possible to infiltrate jihadi fighters into Europe;
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 89 #
I. whereas ISIS/Da’esh is attempting to channel i, according to the Italian Guardia di Finanza, oil imports mconey out of its diminishing territory in Syria and Iraq via oil exports, investment in businesses, illegal fund transfers and compulsory exchanges of foreigntrolled by terrorist organisations may also use as terminals large Italian refineries and whereas tankers from Turkey and Russia are mysteriously disappearing in waters south of Malta, as are small tankers sailing illicitly from Libya whose smuggled crude oil is transhipped into large tankers at sea, after which this load is cuarrency for ISIS/Da’esh currencyied on to various ports; whereas ISIS/Da’esh is laundering the proceeds of its criminal activities by buying businesses and assets of all kinds; whereas these sources could allow ISIS to continue funding future criminal acts after its military defeat;
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas, as recalled by the FATF, judicial authorities all over the world are concerned about the use of virtual currencies by terrorist organisations, as there has been an enormous growth in the use of websites linked to them to promote the use of Bitcoins and in contacts between extremists concerning virtual currencies, while a blog linked to Isis has come to light which proposed using Bitcoins to finance extremists;
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Addresses the following recommendations to the Commission (particularly the European Commissioner for the Security Union, Julian King), the Council and/or the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy:
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g
(g) calls on the Member States to take the legislative measures necessary to guarantee that banks monitor closely debit cards closelyissued to people linked to terrorism or to Islamic extremist circles so as to ensure that they can only be reloaded via bank transfers from accounts held by the cardholder;
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
(ga) calls for the development of systems that automatically monitor transfer operations which are suspect because they involve higher than average amounts or because of their frequency or the particular identity and geographical location of senders and recipients, so as to safeguard the official money transfer system against the real risk of involvement in illicit activities and in particular in financing terrorist activities; calls for new rules on bank transfers to be drawn up, without, however, losing sight of the balance between free movement of capital and identification of suspicious transfers of money;
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) calls on the High Representative and on the Member States, in cooperation with Eurojust and Europol, to draw up a list of individuals and entities operating under opaque regimes and with high rates of suspicious financial transactions;
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) calls on the EU Member States to establish a monitoring system to ensure thadopt: serious and concrete measures to prevent and control activities at mosques, cultural associations andor 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 befor fund-raising purposes, including those stated to be for religious or social welfare purposes, in order to confirm that they are genuinely being used for these purposes and to exclude their use for terrorist financing, and recorded them in a centralised database, set up with all the appropriate guarantees in relation to all transactions made by those sending funds; 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;
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m
(m) calls on the Commission to propose the legislation required to preventcompel e-money issuing companies and their intermediaries fromto take measures to prevent the uncontrolled circulation of such money, under cover of complete anonymity, allowing funds to be converted for users who are not fully identified, as can be the case with users of public networks or anonymous browsers; in this respect, exchanging encrypted money for actual money and vice versa must, as a compulsory requirement, be done using an identifiable bank account;
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n
(n) welcomes the proposal for a (n) regulation on the import of cultural goods; calls on the Commission to bring in a traceability certificate for artworks and antiques entering, and being brought into and/or transiting through, the EU market and originating in territories or places controlled by jihadists; 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 criminal 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;
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o a (new)
(oa) calls on the Commission to use all or part of funds seized in the context of the fight against international terrorism to pay compensation to the families of victims of terrorist attacks;
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Instructs its President to forward this recommendation to the Council, the Commission, - and in particular the Commissioner for the Security Union, Julian King - the European External Action Service and the Member States.
2017/11/28
Committee: AFET