The Anti Terrorism (Financial and other Measures) Order 2002 prohibits financing for any terrorist acts.

Terrorist financing

Combating terrorist financing

Criminalization of terrorist financing

Since the year 2003 the MONEYVAL has used for mutual evaluation a new comprehensive Anti Money Laundering and Combating Terrorist Financing (AML CFT) Methodology, which incorporates the financing of terrorism issue.

Precious commodities and terrorist financing

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has participated in legal workshops with NGOs to explain their responsibilities under Australia's anti terrorist financing legislation.

United States Department of the Treasury, Anti Terrorist Financing Guidelines Voluntary Best Practices for US Based Charities , November 2002, at www.treas.gov press releases docs tocc.pdf.

Criminalization of terrorist acts and their financing

In relation to terrorist financing, this includes examining low value international funds transfer instructions as terrorist financing may involve only small amounts.a

The first concerns good practices in the area of financing and monitoring terrorist financing.

Reducing the risk of terrorist financing by operational entities

typologies and trends in terrorist financing methods and techniques

The possibility of organizing training courses in anti terrorist legislation for magistrates and police officers has already been envisaged and needs only to find external financing to become a reality.

Establishment of a special databank to support anti terrorist efforts.

According to article 3 of the Act, terrorist activity includes financing a known terrorist organization or group.

Legislation with respect to terrorist acts and financing of terrorism

The fight against terrorist financing freezing and seizing of assets

Typologies and trends to counter terrorist financing methods and techniques?

The Committee would also welcome further details on Uzbekistan's anti terrorist activities and its definition of a terrorist act.

Bolivia's criminal law does not contain specific provisions regarding terrorist financing.

In relation to financing terrorist activities, the following sections are relevant

OGBS actively participates in the FATF Working Group on Terrorist Financing.

The comprehensive convention would complement the 12 existing sectoral anti terrorist conventions.

The Criminal Code will specify the liability of natural persons for financing terrorist activity, while the Act on counter terrorism will lay down the liability of legal persons for financing terrorist activity.

Specific knowledge, competence and expertise building in the field of combating terrorist financing (including typologies of terrorist financing, and methods of tracing and tracking assets), are provided by several kinds of initiatives.

No persons were prosecuted in 2004 in Slovakia on the grounds of suspected terrorist activities, financing of terrorism, recruitment for terrorist organisations, or supporting terrorists or terrorist organisations.

Legal or other measures to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorist acts

It often serves as the main source of financing for many terrorist groups.

Where anti terrorist planning is concerned, however, non interference has become ASEAN s biggest handicap.

Regarding the effectiveness of anti terrorist strategy, Sub paragraph 2 (b) of the Resolution requires States to take steps to prevent the commission of terrorist acts. In this regard, please outline any special anti terrorist policies that Thailand has developed that are aimed to preventing the commission of terrorist acts in the following areas

See the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Monograph on Terrorist Financing, staff report to the Commission, pp. 132 143.

It contains provisions criminalizing terrorist acts, including financing of terrorist acts, in Title IV of the special part Crimes and offences of terrorism.

It suggested, instead, that the army should play a secondary role in anti terrorist operations.

It may be difficult to assess the disruptive impact of our efforts against terrorist financing.

Financing of terrorism may be punished as contribution to the commission of a terrorist act.

Criminalization of terrorist financing In compliance with Sub paragraph 1 (a) member States are required to take steps to suppress the financing of terrorism.

In this regard, please outline any special anti terrorist policies that Portugal has developed aimed at preventing the commission of terrorist acts in the following areas

OSCE promotes measures, including proposed in the FATF recommendations, on combating money laundering and terrorist financing.

(b) States should have effective executive machinery for preventing and suppressing the financing of terrorist acts.

Anti money laundering and combating financing of terrorism controls were was added in November 2002.

In addition to formally criminalising terrorism and making it a predicate crime under the anti money laundering regime, the law will provide for the seizure and confiscation of terrorist assets reporting of suspicious transactions relating to terrorist financing and strengthening of existing mechanisms for cooperation in this regard between The Bahamas and other countries.

Given the commonality of detecting and analysing potential money laundering activities and potential terrorist financing activities, it is more effective for major organizations that have been leading efforts to combat money laundering also to address the issue of terrorist financing.

Universal anti terrorism instruments relating to terrorist bombings (10 and 11) have a below average participation rate.

Solidarity must be enhanced by new efforts at co ordinating the existing instruments of anti terrorist collaboration.