15 Amendments of Geoffrey VAN ORDEN related to 2017/2203(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas some financing may come from within European countries for the use elsewhere by terrorist organisations, other funding comes from outside Europe, in order to finance radicalisation and actual terrorist acts;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas there is a continuing need for a preventive strategyies based on the exchange of basic information among intelligence agencies involved in combating the financing of terrorism;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas there ismay be a need for an institution-based European platform – which thus far has existed on an informal basis – to centralise the receipt of information, which is currently spread out among 28 Member Statesoordinate the exchange of suspicious financial information;
Amendment 64 #
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 extensive, is therefore vital; whereas their support for the expansion of Islamist extremist Salafism in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe cannot be toleratshould be blocked;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas leaked intelligence even suggests that institutions and individuals in the Arabian Gulf are reportedly providing financial and logistical support to ISIS/Da’esh and to other radical groups, and whereas without this funding many of these terrorist groups would not be self- sufficient;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas ISIS/Da’esh is attempting to channel its money out of its diminishing territory in Syria and Iraq via oil exports, investment in businesses, illegal fund transfers and compulsory exchanges of foreign currency for ISIS/Da’esh currency; 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 defeatterritorial collapse in Syria and Iraq;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas the Islamic Republic of Iran is also funding terrorist organisations in other countries;
Amendment 120 #
(a) takes the view that a preventive strategyies based on the exchange of basicsharing of best practice and exchange of suspicious financial information among intelligence agencies is vital in combating the financing of terrorism; calls on Europe’s intelligence agencies to improve coordination further by setting up a European financial counter-terrorism intelligence platform with an in-depth focus on the exchange of basicsuspicious transactions and financial 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 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) calls on the Commission and European countries to provide funding for programmes fostering the sharing of best practice among Europe’s intelligence agencies;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
(c) maintaunderlines, as reiterated by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), that it is extremely important thate importance of improved and more rapid 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 180 #
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 proposefor the establishment of a specifically European system in this area, to complement the current framework and address current shortcomings, particularly as regards SEPA payments, ensuring that a balance is struck between security and individual freedoms; points out that EUuropean data protection legislationstandards would apply to this intra- European system;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) calls on the Council of the European Union to step upintroduce measures to block foreign funding for institutions promoting Islamist doctrines, including the application of selective sanctions and other restrictive measures against those individuals and entities; welcomes the establishment of the UNSC committee responsible for supervising the application of sanctions, and calls on all the Member States to act swiftly in blocking funds and financial assets;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) calls on the EU Member States to establish a monitoring systems within their respective jurisdictions to ensure that mosques, cultural associations and similar entities declare all sources of foreign funding and 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 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l – introductory part
Paragraph 1 – point l – introductory part
(l) calls on the Member States to regulate hawala, 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 onrestrict traditional informal money transfers, but on for legitimate purposes, but to prevent trafficking involving organised crime, terrorism or industrial/commercial profits deriving from dirty money; in this respect, calls for: