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2005/2065(INI) The fight against terrorist financing

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead LIBE BORGHEZIO Mario (icon: IND/DEM IND/DEM)
Committee Opinion ECON
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 134o-p3

Events

2005/12/01
   CSL - Debate in Council
Documents
2005/12/01
   CSL - Council Meeting
2005/07/13
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
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2005/06/13
   CSL - Debate in Council
Documents
2005/06/13
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2005/06/07
   EP - Text adopted by Parliament, single reading
Details

The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by Mario BORGHEZIO (IND/DEM, IT) stating that minimum standards should be adopted to prevent organisations being used by terrorists to channel funds. (Please see the summary of 24/05/2005.) Parliament stated that such minimum standards should be formulated for rules on transparency in the charity sector to ensure that banks, credit institutions, insurance and finance companies and not-for-profit organisations achieve maximum transparency in their own management, financial and accounting procedures. They should exclusively use official bank accounts for fund deposits and standard and formal channels for fund transfers, and publish balance sheets which include information on the precise identity of the recipients and on the intended use of the funds.

Other recommendations include the following:

- establish cooperation and exchange structures, including at technical level, to facilitate structured exchanges of information between EU intelligence services, including Europol and Eurojust;

- implement, via the urgent adoption of suitable legislation, measures to ensure the monitoring and traceability of international banking transactions, since these are major means of payment for supplies of weapons and drugs and the proceeds may be used for terrorist ends;

- implementation of all the FATF (Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering) recommendations;

- introduce measures to monitor transfers of funds initiated outside the official channels and prevent the use and infiltration of not-for-profit associations and charities by terrorist organisations, while also supporting the proposal for a European code of conduct and for the charitable sector which would require the publication of balance sheets and institute common rules for auditing and monitoring of accounts;

- establish the requirement that financial institutions, and any other entities subject to obligations relating to the prevention of money laundering, urgently communicate all useful information to the competent public authorities when there is reason to suspect that certain funds might be channelled into terrorist activities or, more generally, to terrorist networks.

It should be noted that the most urgent measure to combat the financing of terrorism is the revised directive on money laundering, which includes provisions against financial transactions suspected of being used to finance terrorist activities.

This recommendation is part of a package of seven recommendations to the Council suggesting the next steps to be taken as part of the Action Plan against Terrorism, which is to be reviewed by the European Council at the summit on 16-17 June. (See also CNS/2004/0812, CNS/2004/0069, INI/2004/2214, INI/2005/2044, INI/2005/2198, and INI/2005/2046.)

2005/06/07
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2005/06/07
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2005/06/07
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by Mario BORGHEZIO (IND/DEM, IT) stating that minimum standards should be adopted to prevent organisations being used by terrorists to channel funds. (Please see the summary of 24/05/2005.) Parliament stated that such minimum standards should be formulated for rules on transparency in the charity sector to ensure that banks, credit institutions, insurance and finance companies and not-for-profit organisations achieve maximum transparency in their own management, financial and accounting procedures. They should exclusively use official bank accounts for fund deposits and standard and formal channels for fund transfers, and publish balance sheets which include information on the precise identity of the recipients and on the intended use of the funds.

Other recommendations include the following:

- establish cooperation and exchange structures, including at technical level, to facilitate structured exchanges of information between EU intelligence services, including Europol and Eurojust;

- implement, via the urgent adoption of suitable legislation, measures to ensure the monitoring and traceability of international banking transactions, since these are major means of payment for supplies of weapons and drugs and the proceeds may be used for terrorist ends;

- implementation of all the FATF (Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering) recommendations;

- introduce measures to monitor transfers of funds initiated outside the official channels and prevent the use and infiltration of not-for-profit associations and charities by terrorist organisations, while also supporting the proposal for a European code of conduct and for the charitable sector which would require the publication of balance sheets and institute common rules for auditing and monitoring of accounts;

- establish the requirement that financial institutions, and any other entities subject to obligations relating to the prevention of money laundering, urgently communicate all useful information to the competent public authorities when there is reason to suspect that certain funds might be channelled into terrorist activities or, more generally, to terrorist networks.

It should be noted that the most urgent measure to combat the financing of terrorism is the revised directive on money laundering, which includes provisions against financial transactions suspected of being used to finance terrorist activities.

This recommendation is part of a package of seven recommendations to the Council suggesting the next steps to be taken as part of the Action Plan against Terrorism, which is to be reviewed by the European Council at the summit on 16-17 June. (See also CNS/2004/0812, CNS/2004/0069, INI/2004/2214, INI/2005/2044, INI/2005/2198, and INI/2005/2046.)

Documents
2005/06/07
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2005/06/02
   CSL - Debate in Council
Documents
2005/06/02
   CSL - Council Meeting
2005/05/26
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2005/05/26
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
2005/05/24
   EP - Vote in committee
Details

The committee adopted the own-initiative report by Mario BORGHEZIO (IND/DEM, IT) looking at steps the EU could take to prevent the financing of terrorism. MEPs highlighted the fact that, " in some cases, terrorists have been able to use the proceeds of charitable fund collections" , at times without the donors and managers of the NGO knowing about this, and other times with the NGOs providing " cover and logistical support both for terrorist operations and for transfers of the arms used by terrorist networks ". To prevent this, the EU should adopt a minimum standard for regulations " to ensure that the not-for-profit organisations afford maximum transparency (...) by exclusively using official bank accounts for fund deposits and formal channels for fund transfers ".

2005/05/04
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2005/04/28
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2005/03/31
   EP - Non-legislative basic document
Documents
2005/03/30
   EC - Non-legislative basic document published
Documents
2004/11/25
   EP - BORGHEZIO Mario (IND/DEM) appointed as rapporteur in LIBE

Documents

Votes

Rapport Borghezio A6-0159/2005 - par. 1,h,1ère partie #

2005/06/07 Outcome: +: 579, -: 62, 0: 5
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Rapport Borghezio A6-0159/2005 - par. 1,h,2ème partie #

2005/06/07 Outcome: -: 341, +: 286, 0: 9
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Rapport Borghezio A6-0159/2005 - am. 4/rév. #

2005/06/07 Outcome: +: 505, 0: 98, -: 26
DE FR IT ES PL GB NL HU PT BE EL AT FI LT SK SE IE DK LV CZ CY EE SI LU MT ??
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  • body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) meeting_id: 2696 url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2696*&MEET_DATE=01/12/2005 date: 2005-12-01T00:00:00
  • body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: General Affairs meeting_id: 2667 url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2667*&MEET_DATE=13/06/2005 date: 2005-06-13T00:00:00
  • body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) meeting_id: 2664 url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2664*&MEET_DATE=02/06/2005 date: 2005-06-02T00:00:00
docs
  • date: 2005-03-31T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B6-2005-221&language=EN title: B6-0221/2005 type: Non-legislative basic document body: EP
  • date: 2005-04-14T00:00:00 docs: title: PE357.634 type: Committee draft report body: EP
  • date: 2005-05-04T00:00:00 docs: title: PE357.846 type: Amendments tabled in committee body: EP
  • date: 2005-05-26T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2005-159&language=EN title: A6-0159/2005 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading body: EP
  • date: 2005-06-07T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2005-222 title: T6-0222/2005 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:C:2006:124E:SOM:EN:HTML title: OJ C 124 25.05.2006, p. 0023-0254 E summary: The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by Mario BORGHEZIO (IND/DEM, IT) stating that minimum standards should be adopted to prevent organisations being used by terrorists to channel funds. (Please see the summary of 24/05/2005.) Parliament stated that such minimum standards should be formulated for rules on transparency in the charity sector to ensure that banks, credit institutions, insurance and finance companies and not-for-profit organisations achieve maximum transparency in their own management, financial and accounting procedures. They should exclusively use official bank accounts for fund deposits and standard and formal channels for fund transfers, and publish balance sheets which include information on the precise identity of the recipients and on the intended use of the funds. Other recommendations include the following: - establish cooperation and exchange structures, including at technical level, to facilitate structured exchanges of information between EU intelligence services, including Europol and Eurojust; - implement, via the urgent adoption of suitable legislation, measures to ensure the monitoring and traceability of international banking transactions, since these are major means of payment for supplies of weapons and drugs and the proceeds may be used for terrorist ends; - implementation of all the FATF (Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering) recommendations; - introduce measures to monitor transfers of funds initiated outside the official channels and prevent the use and infiltration of not-for-profit associations and charities by terrorist organisations, while also supporting the proposal for a European code of conduct and for the charitable sector which would require the publication of balance sheets and institute common rules for auditing and monitoring of accounts; - establish the requirement that financial institutions, and any other entities subject to obligations relating to the prevention of money laundering, urgently communicate all useful information to the competent public authorities when there is reason to suspect that certain funds might be channelled into terrorist activities or, more generally, to terrorist networks. It should be noted that the most urgent measure to combat the financing of terrorism is the revised directive on money laundering, which includes provisions against financial transactions suspected of being used to finance terrorist activities. This recommendation is part of a package of seven recommendations to the Council suggesting the next steps to be taken as part of the Action Plan against Terrorism, which is to be reviewed by the European Council at the summit on 16-17 June. (See also CNS/2004/0812, CNS/2004/0069, INI/2004/2214, INI/2005/2044, INI/2005/2198, and INI/2005/2046.) type: Text adopted by Parliament, single reading body: EP
  • date: 2005-07-13T00:00:00 docs: url: /oeil/spdoc.do?i=4061&j=0&l=en title: SP(2005)2882 type: Commission response to text adopted in plenary
events
  • date: 2005-03-31T00:00:00 type: Non-legislative basic document published body: EC docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B6-2005-221&language=EN title: B6-0221/2005
  • date: 2005-04-28T00:00:00 type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
  • date: 2005-05-24T00:00:00 type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading body: EP summary: The committee adopted the own-initiative report by Mario BORGHEZIO (IND/DEM, IT) looking at steps the EU could take to prevent the financing of terrorism. MEPs highlighted the fact that, " in some cases, terrorists have been able to use the proceeds of charitable fund collections" , at times without the donors and managers of the NGO knowing about this, and other times with the NGOs providing " cover and logistical support both for terrorist operations and for transfers of the arms used by terrorist networks ". To prevent this, the EU should adopt a minimum standard for regulations " to ensure that the not-for-profit organisations afford maximum transparency (...) by exclusively using official bank accounts for fund deposits and formal channels for fund transfers ".
  • date: 2005-05-26T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2005-159&language=EN title: A6-0159/2005
  • date: 2005-06-02T00:00:00 type: Debate in Council body: CSL docs: url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2664*&MEET_DATE=02/06/2005 title: 2664
  • date: 2005-06-07T00:00:00 type: Results of vote in Parliament body: EP docs: url: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=4061&l=en title: Results of vote in Parliament
  • date: 2005-06-07T00:00:00 type: Debate in Parliament body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20050607&type=CRE title: Debate in Parliament
  • date: 2005-06-07T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2005-222 title: T6-0222/2005 summary: The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by Mario BORGHEZIO (IND/DEM, IT) stating that minimum standards should be adopted to prevent organisations being used by terrorists to channel funds. (Please see the summary of 24/05/2005.) Parliament stated that such minimum standards should be formulated for rules on transparency in the charity sector to ensure that banks, credit institutions, insurance and finance companies and not-for-profit organisations achieve maximum transparency in their own management, financial and accounting procedures. They should exclusively use official bank accounts for fund deposits and standard and formal channels for fund transfers, and publish balance sheets which include information on the precise identity of the recipients and on the intended use of the funds. Other recommendations include the following: - establish cooperation and exchange structures, including at technical level, to facilitate structured exchanges of information between EU intelligence services, including Europol and Eurojust; - implement, via the urgent adoption of suitable legislation, measures to ensure the monitoring and traceability of international banking transactions, since these are major means of payment for supplies of weapons and drugs and the proceeds may be used for terrorist ends; - implementation of all the FATF (Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering) recommendations; - introduce measures to monitor transfers of funds initiated outside the official channels and prevent the use and infiltration of not-for-profit associations and charities by terrorist organisations, while also supporting the proposal for a European code of conduct and for the charitable sector which would require the publication of balance sheets and institute common rules for auditing and monitoring of accounts; - establish the requirement that financial institutions, and any other entities subject to obligations relating to the prevention of money laundering, urgently communicate all useful information to the competent public authorities when there is reason to suspect that certain funds might be channelled into terrorist activities or, more generally, to terrorist networks. It should be noted that the most urgent measure to combat the financing of terrorism is the revised directive on money laundering, which includes provisions against financial transactions suspected of being used to finance terrorist activities. This recommendation is part of a package of seven recommendations to the Council suggesting the next steps to be taken as part of the Action Plan against Terrorism, which is to be reviewed by the European Council at the summit on 16-17 June. (See also CNS/2004/0812, CNS/2004/0069, INI/2004/2214, INI/2005/2044, INI/2005/2198, and INI/2005/2046.)
  • date: 2005-06-07T00:00:00 type: End of procedure in Parliament body: EP
  • date: 2005-06-13T00:00:00 type: Debate in Council body: CSL docs: url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2667*&MEET_DATE=13/06/2005 title: 2667
  • date: 2005-12-01T00:00:00 type: Debate in Council body: CSL docs: url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2696*&MEET_DATE=01/12/2005 title: 2696
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7.30.20
Action to combat terrorism
activities
  • date: 2005-03-31T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B6-2005-221&language=EN type: Non-legislative basic document published title: B6-0221/2005 body: EC commission: type: Non-legislative basic document published
  • date: 2005-04-28T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Economic and Monetary Affairs committee: ECON body: EP responsible: True committee: LIBE date: 2004-11-25T00:00:00 committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs rapporteur: group: IND/DEM name: BORGHEZIO Mario
  • date: 2005-05-24T00:00:00 body: EP committees: body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Economic and Monetary Affairs committee: ECON body: EP responsible: True committee: LIBE date: 2004-11-25T00:00:00 committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs rapporteur: group: IND/DEM name: BORGHEZIO Mario type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • date: 2005-05-26T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2005-159&language=EN type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading title: A6-0159/2005 body: EP type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • body: CSL meeting_id: 2664 docs: url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2664*&MEET_DATE=02/06/2005 type: Debate in Council title: 2664 council: Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) date: 2005-06-02T00:00:00 type: Council Meeting
  • date: 2005-06-07T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=4061&l=en type: Results of vote in Parliament title: Results of vote in Parliament url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20050607&type=CRE type: Debate in Parliament title: Debate in Parliament url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2005-222 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading title: T6-0222/2005 body: EP type: Results of vote in Parliament
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  • body: CSL meeting_id: 2696 docs: url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2696*&MEET_DATE=01/12/2005 type: Debate in Council title: 2696 council: Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) date: 2005-12-01T00:00:00 type: Council Meeting
committees
  • body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Economic and Monetary Affairs committee: ECON
  • body: EP responsible: True committee: LIBE date: 2004-11-25T00:00:00 committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs rapporteur: group: IND/DEM name: BORGHEZIO Mario
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The fight against terrorist financing
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7.30.20 Action to combat terrorism