Money Laundering: EU Law

(asked on 22nd July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for the UK of possible future interpretations and applications of Article 4(3) of Council Decision 2000/642/JHA by the Court of Justice of the EU should the UK continue to be bound by that Decision after 1 December 2014.


Answered by
Karen Bradley Portrait
Karen Bradley
This question was answered on 2nd September 2014

A full impact assessment has been conducted on Council Decision 2000/642/JHA. Details of this assessment can be found in Command Paper 8897.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/326698/41670_Cm_8897_Accessible.pdf , published on 3 July 2014.

The Government has considered the potential impacts of CJEU jurisdiction very carefully in deciding which pre-Lisbon police and criminal justice measures it was in the interests of the UK to rejoin.

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