In a draft resolution published on Wednesday 2 July (see EUROPE 13656/16), MEP Jorge Buxadé Villalba (PfE, Spanish) has proposed that the European Parliament should oppose the European Commission’s delegated regulation updating the list of high-risk jurisdictions with strategic gaps in their national anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regimes.
During the exchange of views with Maria Luís Albuquerque, Commissioner for Financial Services, on Monday 30 June, the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committees expressed their disagreement (see EUROPE 13671/22).
In the document, Mr Buxadé Villalba criticises the Commission for addressing risk in the cases of Algeria, Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Monaco, Namibia, Nepal and Venezuela. He also criticised it for not properly taking into account the threats to the international financial system in the case of Gibraltar.
The resolution will be put to the vote at the European Parliament plenary session on Wednesday 9 July.
Read the text: https://aeur.eu/f/hoq (Original version in French by Anne Damiani)