The Commission's commitment to carry out its own assessment of third countries at high risk of money laundering

18.4.2018

Question for written answer E-002180-18
to the Commission
Rule 130
Sven Giegold (Verts/ALE)

The Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD) includes an obligation on the Commission to regularly adopt a delegated act with a list of high-risk third countries. Once on the list, these countries are subject to enhanced due diligence measures.

In December 2017, Commissioner Jourova came to Parliament’s PANA Committee with a proposal for a roadmap on how the EU will carry out its own assessment of third countries at high-risk of money laundering: the Commission will look at priority countries in 2018 and have a list of priority countries to potentially blacklist by the end of 2018. It will then assess a number of countries between 2019 and 2025 and will update the delegated act as regularly as necessary.

Has the Commission formally adopted and published the roadmap for its own assessment of third countries at risk?

Has the Commission started the work to assess priority countries, as it has undertaken to do in 2018?

If so, which countries does the Commission consider a priority for evaluation by its services this year?