Some measures are important only in the work of law enforcement agencies, but others can directly affect the usual spheres of life for Ukrainians.
The State Financial Monitoring Service has sent to the Cabinet of Ministers a number of measures in the field of anti-money laundering, which must be taken in the near future to implement the conclusions and recommendations of the European Commission on Ukraine's application for membership in the European Union. A list of these recommendations is available to ZN.UA .
All these measures relate to the need to bring Ukrainian anti-money laundering legislation in line with the standards of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Part of the measures is important in the work of law enforcement agencies, but is unlikely to directly affect ordinary citizens. For example:
- Ukraine should amend the Criminal Procedure Code on international cooperation in criminal matters in terms of compliance with the requirements of confidentiality in the execution of requests for international legal assistance;
- abolish the requirements of double criminalization of crimes as grounds for refusing international legal assistance in the absence international agreement with the requesting state, if the request concerns the performance of procedural actions that do not require court permission;
- ensure the criminalization of terrorist financing for travel in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 2178.
< p style = "text-align: justify;">However, a number of areas that will soon change may directly affect the usual spheres of life for Ukrainians – directly or indirectly. Namely:
- Ukraine should criminalize smuggling of goods;
- supplement the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Individuals – Entrepreneurs and Public Associations information on the ultimate beneficial owners;
- to improve the supervision of specially designated subjects of primary financial monitoring (auditors, accountants, tax consultants, bar associations and lawyers, notaries; legal advisers; persons providing services for the establishment, operation or management of legal entities; realtors and brokers, traders in precious metals, stones and their products; organizers of lotteries and gambling);
- improve legislation on real estate brokerage;
- create a Unified Register of accounts of individuals and legal entities, individual bank safes as a single state information system;
- change the legislation regarding the implementation of the mechanism of verification of final beneficial owners.
All these changes have a deadline of implementation – the end of the current 2022.
We will remind, June 23 Ukraine became the candidate for membership in The EU .
The next steps in joining the EU will be decided after Ukraine fulfills all the conditions. At the same time, our state must submit the first report on the assessment of compliance with the conditions by the end of this year.
What are the conditions should Ukraine do and what next? What awaits our country on the long road to the European Union? Read also in the article Dmytro Shulha “ When Ukraine can become a member of the EU and how not to miss the chance ” . span>
