The Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism (CETS n° 198) held its 10th meeting in Strasbourg from 30 to 31 October 2018.
Amongst other issues, the COP adopted two transversal thematic monitoring reports on the implementation by all 34 States Parties of Article 11 (“International recidivism”) and Article 25, paragraphs 2 and 3 (“Confiscated property and asset-sharing”) of the Convention; examined the follow-up reports of Belgium and Malta; updated a document on the COP’s involvement in the implementation of the Council of Europe Action Plan on Combating Transnational Organised Crime (2016 – 2020); held exchanges of views with a law enforcement expert on current challenges in tracking the proceeds of crime in the field of virtual assets; and discussed different cases on the practical implementation of the Convention.
