Answer given by Ms Albuquerque on behalf of the European Commission
2.9.2025
Gibraltar made significant progress to improve its Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) regime, which led to its removal from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of ‘jurisdictions under increased monitoring’ in February 2024. As FATF member, the Commission was closely involved in assessing Gibraltar’s progress against its FATF action plan.
Following the completion of Gibraltar’s action plan and considering that no additional concerns had been identified, Gibraltar was considered to no longer pose a threat to the Union’s financial system.
The Commission therefore proposed to remove Gibraltar from the EU list of jurisdictions with strategic deficiencies in their AML/CFT regimes.
As both the European Parliament and the Council did not object to the entry into force of the Delegated Act from 10 June 2025 removing Gibraltar from the list, the Delegated Act has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 16 July 2025 as Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1184[1].
The Commission will continue to closely monitor developments in Gibraltar's AML/CFT regime. A commitment to maintaining a level-playing field on anti-money laundering is also an important component of the future EU-UK Agreement on Gibraltar, on which a political agreement was reached on 11 June 2025[2].