The purpose of the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Policy Board is :
1° To ensure better coordination between government departments and supervisory authorities involved in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, in order to enhance the effectiveness of this fight;
1° bis Strengthen the exchange of information between those involved in preventive and repressive measures;
2° Promote consultation with the persons referred to in Article L. 561-2 with regard to the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, in order to improve their participation in this fight;
3° Suggesting improvements to the national preventive and repressive anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing measures with a view to contributing to an inter-ministerial action plan, monitoring their implementation and assessing their effectiveness;
4° Drawing up and regularly updating a national risk analysis aimed at identifying, understanding and assessing the money laundering and terrorist financing risks to which France is exposed and proposing measures to mitigate these risks. This analysis shall pay particular attention to any financial activity considered particularly likely, by its nature, to be used or diverted for money laundering or terrorist financing purposes and shall take account of the report drawn up by the Commission on the European risk assessment as provided for in Article 6(1) of Directive 2015/849 of 20 May 2015 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering or terrorist financing, amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council. This analysis also presents the institutional structure and general procedures of the anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism system, and specifies the resources mobilised to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
5° To consolidate, with a view to publication in an annual report, statistics relating to:
a) The size and importance of the various sectors to which the persons mentioned in Article L. 561-2 belong, including the number of such persons;
b) The number of declarations transmitted pursuant to Article L. 561-15, the action taken on these reports and the number of cases investigated, the number of persons prosecuted and convicted for money laundering or terrorist financing, the types of underlying offences, where this information is available, and the value of assets frozen, seized or confiscated;
c) The number of cross-border requests for information that were made, received, rejected and to which a partial or complete response was given by the department mentioned in Article L. 561-23 broken down by partner country;
d) The human resources of the authorities mentioned in Article L. 561-36 and of the department mentioned in Article L. 561-23 dedicated to combating money laundering and terrorist financing;
e) The number of on-site and off-site surveillance measures, the number of offences detected on the basis of surveillance measures and sanctions or administrative measures applied by the authorities mentioned in Article L. 561-36.
6° To consolidate on an annual basis, with a view to their transmission to the European Commission, the statistics referred to in Article 19 of Directive 2019/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 which are communicated to it by the department mentioned in Article L. 561-23, the tax and customs departments and those of the Ministries of Justice and the Interior.