10 Amendments of Andrey KOVATCHEV related to 2017/2203(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing, amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directive 2006/70/EC,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
– having regard to the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2015/849 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing and amending Directive 2009/101/EC of 5 July 2016,
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas there is a need for a preventive strategy based on the exchange of basic information among intelligence agencies involved in combating the financing of terrorism and for improved cooperation among financial intelligence units, among law-enforcement agencies and between intelligence services and law- enforcement agencies;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point а
Paragraph 1 – point а
(а) 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 high-risk third countries which have shortcomings when it comes to combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism; calls on the Commission to draw up such a directory as quickly as possible, on the basis of its own criteria and analysis in accordance with Directive 2015/849; reiterates that those responsible for committing, organising or supporting terrorist acts must be held to account for their actions;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) calls on the Commission to provide funding for programmes fostering the sharing of best practice among Europe’s intelligence agencies; welcomes the financial resources earmarked for the exchange of best practices in the investigation and analysis of the methods used by terrorists and terrorist organisations to collect and transfer funds for terrorist purposes;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
(c) maintains, as reiterated by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), that it is extremely important that information- sharing should be improved, and speeded up, among financial intelligence units, andbetween financial intelligence units and the security forces, between law enforcement and intelligence agencies within jurisdictions, among different jurisdictions, as well as in the private sector, especially the banking sector;
Amendment 142 #
(d) calls on the Member States to make better use of the informal network of European Financial Information Units (FIU.net), on the basis of the work done by Europol for the purpose of sharing the information concerned with the European counter- terrorism intelligence platform;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) welcomes the Commission’s proposal to facilitate cross-border access for law enforcement agencies to bank account registers, spefor the establishment of bank account registers and for facilitating access to them by financial intelligence units and other competent authorities engaged ing up the process of identifying the assets of terrorists in other Member States so that, once terrorists are identifi combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism; notes that the Commission is shortly to propose an initiative to give law-enforcement agencies wider access to the registers; underscores the need, twhe transactions they have made prior to attacks can be investigated, and any contacts they have had with other possible suspects can be identifiedn exchanging bank account information, to observe the rules on police cooperation and judicial cooperation, particularly in the context of criminal proceedings; calls, in that regard, on the Member States which have not yet transposed Directive 2014/41/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014, regarding the European Investigation Order in criminal matters, to do so as soon as possible;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) calls on the EU Member States to establish a monitoring system to ensure thatsystem for supervision of the financing, especially from abroad, of mosques, Islamic cultural associations and similar entities provide details of how the funds they receive are distributed, both within and outside the EU, and, as well as the distribution of their funds; 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, by charities themselves, 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 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o
Paragraph 1 – point o