Brussels, 15/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - European casinos are to combine their efforts to tackle money-laundering. The European Casino Association (ECA) set up a new task force to coordinate action on 12 November. Casinos are hoping for revision of the EU directive on gambling to align it with international practices. Heliodoro Giner, General Secretary of the Spanish Casino Association and ECA Board member, responsible for anti-money laundering, emphasised “the different AML implementation systems in place in the different EU member states, and the need to communicate our common strategy in order to best tackle and enforce European AML regulations”. Key issues include questions like “What kind of behaviour is considered to be 'suspicious' in your casinos?” and how the different casinos track suspicious customers. A review of the EU's third anti-money-laundering directive is being prepared (2005/60/EC) and casinos hope it will be aligned with the standards of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and raise the vigilance threshold for bets of between €2,000 and €3,000. The industry says that online betting must also be covered by the directive. (MD/transl.fl)