Other International Standards

Baltic States

Riga Declaration
(November 1996)

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

Statement on Prevention of Criminal Use of the Banking System for the Purpose of Money-Laundering
(Basel, December 1988)

Customer Due Diligence for Banks [ Français] [ Español]
(Basel, October 2001)

Due Diligence and Transparency regarding Cover Payment Messages related to Cross-Border Wire Transfers
(Basel, May 2009)

Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF)

CFATF 19 Recommendations
(Aruba, June 1990)

Kingston Declaration on Money Laundering
(Kingston, November 1992)

Council of Europe

Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism, [ Français]
Explanatory Note
(Warsaw, 16 May 2005)

European Treaty Series - No. 141: Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime [ Français]
(November 1990)

European Union

Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing [ Français ] [ Español ]

Council Directive on Prevention of the Use of the Financial System for the Purpose of Money Laundering [91/308/EEC] [ Français]
(Brussels, 10 June 1991)

Directive 2001/97/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 91/308/EEC on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering [ Français] [ Español]
(Brussels, 4 December 2001)

Financial Action Task Force (FATF),
Groupe d'action financière sur le blanchiment de capitaux (GAFI)

Revised FATF Recommendations - International Standards on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism & Proliferation, February 2012

The Forty Recommendations, 20 June 2003 [ French ] [ Spanish ]
(with amendments of 22 October 2004)

The Forty Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering, 1996 [ English ] [ Français ]

Nine Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing, October 2001 [ English ] [ French ] [ Spanish ]

FATF First and Second Public Consultations

The FATF conducted a review of the 40+9 Recommendations to ensure that they remain up-to-date and relevant, and to benefit from lessons learnt from implementing and evaluating the current standards. Between October 2010 and January 2011, the FATF undertook a public consultation on the first phase of its review of the standards and between June and September 2011, the FATF undertook a second public consultation on a set of policy proposals concerning issues that were considered during the second phase of the review, such as: beneficial ownership; data protection and group-wide compliance programmes; wire transfers; targeted financial sanctions; and politically exposed persons. To access the various documentation relating to the First and Second Public Consultations, please click here.

Organization of American States
Comision Interamericana para el Control del Abuso de Drogas (OAS / CICAD)

The Buenos Aires Declaration on money laundering
(December 1995)