FATF Recommendations

• International Standards on Combating Money Laundering, the Financing of Terrorism and the Financing of Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (FATF Recommendations, 2012, as amended up to June 2025)
• Interpretive Notes and Glossary to the FATF Recommendations
• Methodology for Assessing Technical Compliance with the FATF Recommendations and the Effectiveness of AML/CFT Systems (2013, updated 2022 and June 2025)
• Recent updates to the Standards: including strengthened provisions on the Travel Rule (Recommendation 16) and measures related to virtual assets and VASPs (Recommendation 15).

The FATF also issued a number of guidance and best practices papers regarding the implementation of its Recommendations. These are thematically oriented and focus either on the implementation of particular recommendations or other cross-cutting issues. Reference to these documents is made under the relevant topics of the “Implementation” section.

Council of Europe

• Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism (Warsaw Convention, CETS No. 198, 2005)
• Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism (CETS No. 196)
• Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism (2015)

European Union Legislation

• Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing (4th AMLD), as amended by Directive (EU) 2018/843 (5th AMLD)
• Directive (EU) 2018/1673 of the European Parliament and of the Council on combating money laundering by criminal law (6th AMLD)
• Regulation on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing (AMLR, 2024)
• Regulation establishing the European Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA, 2024)

International Conventions

• United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Vienna Convention, 1988)
• International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (1999)
• United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (Palermo Convention, 2000)
• United Nations Convention against Corruption (Merida Convention, 2003)
• Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (1970)
• Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (1971)
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents (1973)
• International Convention against the Taking of Hostages (1979)
• Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (1980)
• Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation (1988)
• Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (1988)
• Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms located on the Continental Shelf (1988)
• International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (1997)