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Mr President, the Member States of the European Union have committed themselves to implementing the Special Recommendation VII of the FATF concerning money transfers at a European level, with the aim of successfully preventing the funding of terrorist activities. Therefore in order to ensure an exchange of information concerning the person making the transfer at each stage of the transfer process, we have to introduce a system which obliges the financial services suppliers to include specific and accurate information about the person making the transfer in the financial transfer documents.
We must fight terrorism and adopt measures to make the funding of terrorism impossible. However, it is also important to make sure that the bodies responsible for combating money laundering or the funding of terrorism act in accordance with national criminal law and respect fundamental rights. The five-year period proposed by the Commission for storing information deserves our support. However, as far as the implementation of the regulation is concerned, some exceptions, such as those proposed by the rapporteur, have to be included. Certain definitions must also be made more specific and more complete.
We must limit the use of stored and transmitted information to the defined scope of application in order to prevent general storage of information on citizens and to minimise the infringement of fundamental rights on the basis of this regulation. We also have to prevent executive powers being used to introduce changes and the comitology procedure.
Changes in legislation which were subject to the codecision procedure should also take place within the framework of the codecision procedure. The Member States should ensure the creation of lists of organisations in their countries to which the regulation applies and make sure that these lists are updated and always made accessible to an interested Member State. Moreover, three years after the regulation enters into force, we should introduce a revision clause relating to money transfers and mobile payments as well as a sunset clause of five years after the regulation comes into force.
Finally, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur on an excellent report on a very complex and important issue for the European Union."@en1
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