Meeting of the FATF Plenary, Paris, 17-19 October 2012

The 36 members of the Financial Action Task Group (FATF) and representatives from the FATF Style Regional Bodies will meet in Paris, under the presidency of Mr. Bjørn S. Aamo of Norway, for the first Plenary under the Norwegian Presidency.

Some of the issues on the agenda for the Plenary meeting are:

• Reviewing guidance and best practice papers to support implementation of the revisions to the FATF Recommendations that were adopted in February 2012.
• Developing the process to assess the level of compliance with the 2012 FATF Recommendations in the 4th Round of mutual evaluations which will begin next year.
• Engaging with the FATF Style Regional Bodies through the Global Network Co-ordination Group to ensure effective global implementation of the revised FATF Recommendations.
• Reviewing the implementation of measures taken by a number countries to address deficiencies identified in the last round of mutual evaluation reports.
• Identifying jurisdictions with strategic deficiencies in their AML/CFT system and reviewing progress made by jurisdictions that had been identified at the June 2012 Plenary. (c) FATF