EU Legislation

All Member States have set up financial intelligence units (FIUs) to collect and analyse information received under the provisions of Directive 91/308/EEC with the aim of establishing links between suspicious financial transactions and underlying criminal activity in order to prevent and to combat money laundering. Improvement of the mechanisms for exchanging information between the FIUs is...

In November 2000, the JHA Council adopted its "programme of measures" to implement the principle of "mutual recognition of decisions in criminal matters". The mutual recognition principle is that...

The Council adopted a Convention to facilitate mutual judicial assistance between the authorities of the Member States (police, customs and courts) in order to improve the speed and efficiency of...

This publication contains the consolidated version of Council Decision 2000/365/EC of 29 May 2000 concerning the request of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to take part in...

With this Council Decision, the European Union aims to prevent and combat the production, processing, distribution and possession of child pornography on the Internet. In order to intensify the...

Following up its action plan to combat organised crime of June 1997, the Vienna European Council, meeting in December 1998, called for EU action on organised crime to be strengthened in the light...

The European Council held a special meeting on 15 and 16 October 1999 in Tampere on the creation of an area of freedom, security and justice in the European Union. At the start of proceedings an...