On December 14-15, 2010 13th EAG Plenary meeting will take place in Moscow

Experts from the EAG member states including China, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and observer countries and organizations will take part in the meeting.

Key issue of the agenda is assessing preliminary results of the EAG activities and discussing priorities for the upcoming period in the context of the anticipated transformation of the group into an international organization.Another major topic is the member-state follow-up reports on the progress made in developing national AML/CFT regimes. This issue becomes ever more relevant given the development of the FATF procedures on revising the 40+9 Recommendations prior to the 4th round of mutual evaluations.

The participants of the EAG Plenary will also consider granting observer status to the UN CTC and developing cooperation with other international and regional organizations.

In this framework a memorandum of understanding will be signed with the Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States (IPA CIS) by the EAG Chairman Oleg Markov and the IPA CIS Secretary General Mikhail Krotov. The EAG and IPA CIS will develop cooperation for enhancing national legislation of the member states and conducting comprehensive information exchange.

The 13th EAG Plenary will approve of the typology reports of 2010 on ML/TF risks of e-money, foreign trade operations, nontraditional financial institutions, alternative remittance systems, etc.