ECOLEF Final Conference

Conference Center ‘De Bazel’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (29/30 November)

Prevention of and Fight against Crime JLS/2009/ISEC/AG/087

With the financial support from the Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme of the European Union European Commission, Directorate General Home Affairs

Introduction

After the Third EC Directive to combat money laundering and terrorist financing came into force, the European Commission awarded Utrecht University the assignment to research the economic and legal effectiveness of the anti-money laundering and combating terrorist financing policy in the European Union (hereinafter ‘ECOLEF’). This research is performed within the European Commission, DG Home Affairs, on the “Prevention of and Fight against Crime” (ISEC) Programme. The ECOLEF team researches the policy of the 27 Member States of the European Union in relation to the mentioned topic and will deliver its final report to the European Commission in December 2012. The ECOLEF project is headed by Prof. Dr. Brigitte Unger. Other members of the team are Prof. Dr. Henk Addink, Prof. Dr. Francois Kristen, Joras Ferwerda MSc., Ioana Deleanu MSc., Melissa van den Broek LLM, and Daan van der Linde MSc from Utrecht University, Ass. Prof. John Walker from the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Prof. Dr. Reinhard Pirker from Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.

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