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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11804
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Justice

Council decides minimum rules for penalising money laundering under criminal law

On Thursday 8 June in Luxembourg, EU Justice Ministers reached a political agreement of principle (“general approach”) on the draft directive for tackling money laundering under criminal law. This stage will enable the Council to begin negotiations with the European Parliament.

The aim of the directive is threefold: establishing minimum rules on the definition of criminal offences and penalties for money laundering; the elimination of obstacles to cross-border legal and police...

Contents

BEACONS
BEACONS: When misleading figures call for a new Bismarck
SECTORAL POLICIES
JUSTICE: European Public Prosecutor, with 20 participating member states at the moment, is nearly ready to go
JUSTICE: Commission tests out its ideas at Council on legislative initiative on harvesting electronic evidence
JUSTICE: Council decides minimum rules for penalising money laundering under criminal law
TRANSPORT: Commission publishes proposals to protect EU airlines and improve aviation traffic
TRANSPORT: Mobility package brings tensions to fore
TRANSPORT: Council calls for greater focus on safety in road hauliers' training
TRANSPORT: Council aims to halve road deaths between 2010 and 2020
DIGITAL: Council agreement on digital content
DIGITAL: MEPs finally support creation of rights for press publishers
DIGITAL: Estonia outlines its programme to Telecommunications Council
AGRICULTURE: S&D Group backs EFA pesticides ban
ENERGY: Greens in European Parliament call for 'energy/climate' objectives and governance framework to be significantly reinforced
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECB: Main lending rates will not go any lower
FINANCE: Nine new priority actions added to implementation timetable of Capital Markets Union
TAXATION: Spotlight on tax advisers
TAXATION: Country-by-country tax reporting – European Parliament's ALDE group submits new compromise
BANKS: EBA publishes draft methodology for 2018 stress tests
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
MIGRATION: Advocate General says in cases of mass migration inflows, member state having to assess asylum application is not necessarily country of initial entry into EU
CONSUMERS: Court confirms ban on certain health claims praising qualities of glucose
CITIZENSHIP: Court justifies refusal of automatic recognition of change of name registered in another member state
GENERAL COURT OF EU: Entry into office of new judge
EXTERNAL ACTION
USA: Malmström and Lighthizer underscore their 'shared interest' in strengthening transatlantic trade relations
ALGERIA: EU draws positive conclusion on P3A support programme for diversification of Algerian economy
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: EuroHealthNet commits and calls for action on health equity and well-being
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: On World Oceans Day, Greenpeace calls on EU to save Mediterranean from plastic
INSTITUTIONAL
PARLIAMENT: 134 MEPs call for Tajani to act on exploitation of interns
BETTER REGULATION: REFIT platform adopts 13 new opinions
NEWS BRIEFS
HUMANITARIAN AID: EU-UNICEF project operational for education of refugee children in Turkey
BUDGET: Council agrees on budgetisation of 2016 surplus
DEVELOPMENT: EIB invests €22 million in Pont de Rosso bridge in Senegal
MIGRATION: Italy to receive €58 million more
DIGITAL: Regulation on cross-border portability adopted
TRANSPORT: Transport ministers adopt maritime transport priorities to 2020
TURKEY: EU asks Ankara to uphold the presumption of innocence