Observers
Several other bodies, countries and organisations are granted observer status with MONEYVAL. MONEYVAL observers are entitled to send their representatives to MONEYVAL meetings; nevertheless, they do not have the right to vote.
MONEYVAL observers are the following:
- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the Council of Europe Development Bank, the European Committee on Crime Problems, and the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism (CETS 198);
- The European Commission and the Secretariat General of the Council of the European Union;
- Countries with observer status of the Council of Europe (ie. Canada, Japan, Mexico, United States of America);
The following international organisations and institutions:
- Secretariat of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF);
- ICPO-Interpol;
- Commonwealth Secretariat;
- International Monetary Fund (IMF);
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC);
- United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC);
- World Bank;
- European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD);
- Group of International Finance Centre Supervisors (GIFCS) (previously named Offshore Group of Banking Supervisors (OGBS);
- Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE);
- Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units;
- Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (EAG);
- Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)
- Any other FATF style regional body (FSRB) which becomes an associate member of the FATF, on the basis of reciprocity;
- Any member of the FATF not represented in MONEYVAL as one of the two delegations officially appointed by the FATF.
Relevant Council of Europe websites
Conference of the Parties (COP) to the CETS 198