International Events
Joint Council of Europe and Egmont Group Training of Trainers on Strategic Analysis for Financial Intelligence Units
On 11-13 March 2024, the Council of Europe, in cooperation with the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), organised a Training of Trainers on Strategic Analysis for FIU analysts. The event gathered 20 representatives from 17 jurisdictions, including Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and...
CosP 10: Council of Europe special event on judicial specialisation in the fight against corruption
On the occasion of the tenth session of the Conference of the States Parties (CoSP) to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), the Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division hosted a special event on “Judicial specialisation in the fight against corruption” on...
Roundtable on the Council of Europe money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment tools
On 16-17 November 2023, the Council of Europe Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) hosted a Roundtable on the Council of Europe money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) national and sectoral risk assessment methodologies. The event aimed at presenting and discussing different...
Council of Europe discusses trends and practices of special judiciary in the anti-corruption area
The Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) organised a roundtable on “Trends and practices of special courts and specialised judges in the anti-corruption area” on 31 October 2023 in Strasbourg, France. The roundtable brought together judges of special and regular...
Training on conducting strategic analysis for the Bulgarian Financial Intelligence Unit
The Council of Europe Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) is supporting Bulgarian Financial Intelligence Directorate under the State Agency for National Security (FID-SANS – Bulgarian Financial Intelligence Unit) with strengthening their anti-money laundering and countering the...
Supporting Bulgarian Financial Intelligence Unit with enhancing its operational analysis function
On 4-5 July 2023, the Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division held a two-day training on conducting operational analysis for 17 representatives of the Financial Intelligence Directorate under the State Agency for National Security (FID-SANS, Bulgarian FIU). The training was...
Practitioners discuss emerging money laundering and terrorist financing trends and challenges in the context of technical cooperation against economic crime
The Economic Crime and Cooperation Division of the Council of Europe organised, on 12 December 2022 a Roundtable on “Emerging money laundering and terrorist financing trends and challenges” involving practitioners and representatives of beneficiary institutions from 12 jurisdictions (including...
Council of Europe participated at the 9th Session of the Conference of the State Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption
Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) of the Council of Europe participated at the 9th Session of the Conference of the State Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption and held on 16 December 2021 an online special event on Trends, good practices and challenges in...
The 7th annual event of the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) team
7th annual event of the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) team took place during 28-30 November 2018 in Strasbourg. The event brought together 33 Secretariat members and 3 long term advisers of the Division to benefit from exchange of information and training on new developments...
International Conference "Transparency of Beneficial Ownership"
As part of Council of Europe’s efforts aimed at strengthening capacities of anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), this international conference represents a significant inter-regional initiative related to four programmes in two regions: South East Europe...
Workshop for Judges and Prosecutors: “Experiences, Challenges and Best Practices”
On 26 and 27 March 2018, the Council of Europe hosted the workshop on money laundering, terrorist financing and asset recovery for judges and prosecutors co-organised by the MONEYVAL Secretariat, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe...
Action against Economic Crime: tools, impact and lessons learnt
The Council of Europe’s Action against Economic Crime & Cooperation Division organised a brainstorming event in Strasbourg during 15-16 February 2018. The event brought together more than 40 Council of Europe experts from academia, policy community and practitioners along with the Council of...
Presentation of Council of Europe technical cooperation activities
The Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) presented its technical cooperation activities at the GRECO Conference on “Prevention of Corruption in respect of Parliamentarians, Judges and Prosecutors: main trends and lessons learned from GRECO Fourth Evaluation Round”. Conference...
Experts call to step up the fight against corruption
Mr Michele Nicoletti (Italy, SOC), rapporteur of the PACE Political Affairs Committee on Corruption as governance regime: a barrier to institutional efficiency and progress, in co-operation with the Action Against Crime Department of the Council of Europe, gathered a number of academic experts...
International seminar: “Facing new challenges in combating terrorist financing”
The international workshop was organised with the support of the Norway Grants by the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic and the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division of the Council of Europe. The event brought together 61 participants from 31 European countries, representing financial...
Workshop on the Council of Europe AML/CFT National Risk Assessment Methodology
On 1-2 September 2016 the Council of Europe will be holding a workshop in Strasbourg, France to discuss the draft AML/CFT National Risk Assessment Methodology developed by the Economic Crime and Cooperation Unit. International experts in the field of organized crime, risk assessments and...
International Conference on fighting economic crime
The International Conference "Developing trends in combating corruption, money laundering and recovering criminal assets in Europe" will take place on 20-21 October 2015 in Prague. The forum will debate the major trends, challenges and new international standards on anti-corruption, anti-money...
Regional Conference on ”Detecting and Investigating Corruption and Fraud through Audit Procedures”
Numerous representatives of state audit institutions, law enforcement agencies, prosecutors and judges from across the South East Europe will take part in the regional conference on ”Detecting and Investigating Corruption and Fraud through Audit Procedures” organised by the Council of Europe in...
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