Participation at the 65th MONEYVAL plenary meeting

The EAG Secretariat participated in the 65th plenary session of the Council of Europe's Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism (MONEYVAL), which took place on 22-26 May 2023. 

The event was opened by Chair of the MONEYVAL Committee, Ms Elżbieta Frankow-Jaśkiewicz, who recalled the adoption of the MONEYVAL Strategic Priorities 2023-2027, following the High-level Ministerial Meeting on 25 April 2023. 

The Plenary discussed and adopted the mutual evaluation reports of North Macedonia and Romania, as well as the follow-up reports of Albania and Slovenia.  In addition, the Plenary discussed and adopted the typologies report “Money laundering risks in the world of virtual assets and their service providers”. 

The EAG Secretariat informed the Plenary about the recent initiatives of the Group in the field of AML/CFT. In particular, there were presented projects on coordination of technical assistance, methodology and publicly available report on results of regional risk assessment, results of typological projects "ML obtained from tax crimes and crimes in the sphere of entrepreneurship", "ML obtained from cybercrime", as well as collection of cases of the first EAG Contest among banks for the best financial analysis.

The next plenary meeting of MONEYVAL will take place in December 2023.

EAG Secretariat