1. Evaluation of non-criminal data
Working Group Meeting: Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice
Luxembourg, March 2017

2. Overview Comparison of 2014-data round with previous years
New collection on Anti-money laundering data
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3. 2014-data round Type of cases Incoming Pending Resolved
Disposition time
Clearance rate
Criminal
19 (18 MS + EN)
14 (14 MS)
18 (18 MS)
17 (17 MS)
Civil/
Commercial
20 (19 MS + EN)
Admin
17 (16 MS + EN)
16 (15 MS + EN)
18 (17 MS + EN)
Other
14 (13 MS + EN)
11 (11 MS)
13 (12 MS + EN)
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4. Compared to 2013-data round
Why such changes (personnel?) – original message much more positive?
How can we help?
 Type of cases
Incoming
Pending
Resolved
Disposition time
Clearance rate
Criminal
-1 (+MT, EN)
(-DE, PT, NI)
-2 (+MT)
(-DK, DE, PT)
-3 (+MT)
(-DK, DE, PT, NI) -2 -3
Civil/
Commercial
-1 (+AT, EL, SC)
(-DE, NL, RO, NI)
-2 (+EL)
-3 (+EL)
Admin
0 (+EL)
(-DE)
0 (+EL, NL)
(-DE, NI)
Other
0 (+EN)
(-PT)
(-DK, PT)
-1 (+EN)
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5. Anti-money laundering
Legal basis
Sources for data collection
Follow-up to pilot exercise
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6. Article 44 of Directive 2015/849
1. Member States shall, for the purposes of contributing to the preparation of risk assessments pursuant to Article 7, ensure that they are able to review the effectiveness of their systems to combat money laundering or terrorist financing by maintaining comprehensive statistics on matters relevant to the effectiveness of such systems.
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7. Article 44 of Directive 2015/849
2. The statistics referred to in paragraph 1 shall include:
(a) data measuring the size and importance of the different sectors .., including the number of entities and persons and the economic importance of each sector;
(b) data measuring the reporting, investigation and judicial phases of the national AML/CFT regime, including the number of suspicious transaction reports made to the FIU, the follow-up given to those reports and, on an annual basis, the number of cases investigated, the number of persons prosecuted, the number of persons convicted for money laundering or terrorist financing offences, the types of predicate offences, where such information is available, and the value in euro of property that has been frozen, seized or confiscated;
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8. Article 44 of Directive 2015/849
(c) if available, data identifying the number and percentage of reports resulting in further investigation, together with the annual report to obliged entities detailing the usefulness and follow-up of the reports they presented;
(d) data regarding the number of cross-border requests for information that were made, received, refused and partially or fully answered by the FIU.
3.   Member States shall ensure that a consolidated review of their statistics is published.
4.   Member States shall transmit to the Commission the statistics referred to in paragraph 2.
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9. Pilot questionnaire
Examples of data sources: - Financial Intelligence Units - Prosecution Services - Courts - Bodies dealing with confiscated property - Supervisory Authorities
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10. Pilot questionnaire - Sent on 9 December 2016
- Data on courts and prosecution (Tables 2a & 2b): finishing now
- All other data: until the summer
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11. Pilot questionnaire
- Very good response from Member States - Rich set of data - Quality check of data - Use of data depends on final result
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12. Anti-money laundering
Pilot exercise, to help regular data collection
Revised questionnaire will be discussed with ESTAT
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