{"id":7281,"date":"2024-02-23T10:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T09:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&#038;p=7281"},"modified":"2024-02-23T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T09:24:50","slug":"l-awtorita-tal-ue-kontra-l-hasil-tal-flus-se-tkun-ibbazata-fi-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/l-awtorita-tal-ue-kontra-l-hasil-tal-flus-se-tkun-ibbazata-fi-frankfurt\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority will be based in Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EP-Feature-502-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7282\" srcset=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EP-Feature-502-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EP-Feature-502-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EP-Feature-502-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EP-Feature-502-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EP-Feature-502-2048x1361.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EP-Feature-502-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a joint vote, MEPs and EU ambassadors chose Frankfurt to host the EU\u2019s central enforcer in the fight against dirty money, the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine candidates in total applied to host AMLA and presented their candidacies in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/committees\/en\/european-parliament-and-council-joint-pu\/product-details\/20240111EOT08122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">joint public hearings<\/a>. In the vote, Frankfurt received a majority of validly cast votes on the 1st round of voting, and was chosen to host the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Background and next steps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time, a new EU agency\u2019s host city was agreed between the Parliament and Council on an equal footing, following a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2022-07\/cp220126en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Court of Justice of the European Union ruling<\/a>&nbsp;to that effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AMLA regulation is part of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/press-room\/20240117IPR16880\/deal-on-a-single-rulebook-against-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a wider package of laws<\/a>&nbsp;to reform the EU\u2019s framework for combatting money-laundering and terrorist financing. Now that the entire package has been provisionally agreed between Parliament and Council, they need to be formally adopted by both before they can enter into law. Parliament is expected to vote on its final approval in the plenary session of 22-25 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once adopted, the AMLA regulation will apply from July 2025. Before then, the European Commission is responsible for establishing the Authority and for its initial operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a joint vote, MEPs and EU ambassadors chose Frankfurt to host the EU\u2019s central enforcer in the fight against dirty money, the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7282,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[361],"issuem_issue_categories":[8],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/7281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/7281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7284,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/7281\/revisions\/7284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=7281"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=7281"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=7281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}