The Council of Europe through its Economic Crime and Cooperation Division has been supporting countries in the implementation of European and international anti-corruption and anti-money laundering standards as well as addressing their priority reforms for two decades. Such support has taken place on the basis of country bilateral interventions and multilateral cooperation programmes. In view of the wide variety of activities and types of assistance to be provided the organisation has adopted the approach of combining in house knowledge and expertise with external expertise provided by a large pool of Council of Europe experts.

This section of the webpage of the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) is dedicated to the publication of call for offers and tenders that are specifically related to the activities of the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division.

The Project “Developing a risk-based methodology for an automatic anti-money laundering/countering terrorist financing risk categorisation for supervised entities in Portugal” is part of the of the 2021 CoE/EU Technical Support Instrument (TSI) envelope. The overall objective of this Project is to support Portuguese authorities with enhancing the AML/CFT regime in Portugal through strengthening the Bank of Portugal (BdP)’s risk-based supervision (RBS) and its consequent supervisory approach to the supervised sector.

In that context, the Council of Europe is looking for up to four Providers to support the implementation of the project with a particular and practical expertise in the area of risk-based AML/CFT supervision of financial institutions.

The deadline for submission of applications is 15 June 2022.

Applications should be sent exclusively to this email address.

• Link to the Tender File
• Link to the Act of Engagement