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Back Outcome of MONEYVAL's 51st Plenary meeting

MONEYVAL held its 51st plenary meeting in Strasbourg from 27 to 29 September 2016.

At this meeting, the Plenary, inter alia:

Adopted the 5th round MER and executive summary on Hungary, decided to place the country in enhanced follow-up and requested it to report back to the Plenary in December 2017;
Adopted the 4th round follow-up report by Latvia and decided to remove the country from the follow-up process;
Took note of the second follow up report by Bulgaria under the 4th round of mutual evaluations and invited the country to provide a further follow-up report at the 53rd Plenary (May 2017), while encouraging it to then seek removal from the follow-up process;
Took note of the first regular follow-up report by Liechtenstein, welcomed the reforms that took place and encouraged the country to seek removal from the follow-up process within two years;
Took note of the first regular follow-up report by Estonia and encouraged the country to seek removal from the follow-up process not later than two years from now;
Took note of the interim report by the Republic of Moldova and invited the country to seek removal from the follow-up process in December 2016;
Took note of the Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 4th round expedited follow-up report, and suggested that the country seeks removal from the follow-up process within three years at the latest;
took note of the compliance reports of the Czech Republic and Montenegro under the Compliance Enhancing Procedures and asked both countries to submit further compliance reports in December 2016;
heard the update from the Secretariat on the follow-up procedure of the Terrorist Financing Fact-Finding Initiative;
had an exchange of view with Judge Spano from the European Court of Human Rights on the recent Grand Chamber judgment of Al-Dulimi and Montana Management v. Switzerland of 21 June 2016;
Heard a presentation on recent changes to Recommendation 8 and its Interpretative Note.