1. EU COUNTRIES Romania – Poland Financial Intelligence Units’ Twinning Co-operation

2. THE END? BEGINNING! The Polish Team looks forward to working
with you in order to deliver a quality
project in a time-efficient manner

3. AT A GLANCE
PROJECT TITLE - FIGHT AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORISM FINANCING
PROJECT NUMBER - RO/2007-IB/JH/05
FUNDING INSTRUMENT - TRANSITION FACILITY
TIMEFRAME – 15 December 2009 – 14 December 2010
BUDGET – Euro (cofinancing ……)

4. PARTNERS MEMBER STATE PARTNER – POLAND MAIN BENEFICIARY – ROMANIA
GENERAL INSPECTOR OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION
MAIN BENEFICIARY – ROMANIA
NATIONAL OFFICE FOR PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF MONEY LAUNDERING
IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS – ROMANIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND SUPERVISION AUTHORIETIES
CONTRACTING AUTHORITY - ROMANIAN CENTRAL FINANCE AND CONTRACTIN G UNIT

5. MANAGEMENT PROFILE
MS PROJECT LEADER – AGNIESZKA KRÓLIKOWSKA - Director of Department for Protection of the European Union Financial Interests, Ministry of Finance, Poland
BENEFICIARY COUNTRY PROJECT LEADER – STELUTA CLAUDIA ONCICA - Director of the Inter-institutional Cooperation and International Relations Department
RESIDENT TWINNING ADVISOR – ELŻBIETA FRANKÓW-JAŚKIEWICZ - Head of the International Cooperation Unit, Department of Financial Information, Poland
RESIDENT TWINNING ADVISORS’S COUNTERPART – NICOLAE FUIOREA - Head of Inter-institutional Cooperation Department

6. BACKGROUND PROJECT ACTIVITIES ARE CONCENTRATED
AROUND AREAS OF WORK THAT NEED SUBTANTIAL
ENHANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, IN PARTICULAR:
CREATION OF THE NATIONAL STRATEGY IN COMBATING MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING
FUNCTIONING OF THE NOPCML
COOPERATION OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
TRAINING FOR THE DNFBP SECTORS

7. PROJECT PURPOSE
The purpose of the project is to improve the capacity of the National Office for Prevention and Control of Money Laundering as a key authority in receiving, processing and analyzing cases of money laundering and terrorist financing

8. METHOD
The Project builds up the necessary institutional capacity by transferring the know - how from the Member State (Poland) and other EU Countries (Spain, Portugal, France, United Kingdom, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Bulgaria)

9. PROJECT COMPONENTS
Component 1: Increased capacity of the AML/CTF institutional system - National strategy on money laundering and terrorist financing elaborated and submitted to the NOPCML having a key role within the system.
Component 2: Increasing the institutional capacity of the National Office for Prevention and Control of Money Laundering
Component 3: An enhanced capacity of investigation /prosecution for law enforcement bodies
Component 4: Guidance and training for the financial and non-financial reporting entities under direct NOPCML supervision. An increased capacity of reporting entities in order to detect and report suspicious transactions

10. ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE COMPONENTS
Component 1: An increased capacity of the AML/CTF institutional system - National strategy on money laundering and terrorist financing elaborated and submitted with the NOPCML having a key role within the system
Setting up a working group for the draft the national AML/CTF strategy
Two days-meeting of the working group for the elaboration of the final Draft National AML/CFT Strategy
One day seminar on the draft strategy, targeting all relevant stakeholders/management of the involved institutions

11. ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE COMPONENTS
Component 2: Increasing the institutional capacity of the National Office for Prevention and Control of Money Laundering
Organizing of five 3-day workshops for the financial analysts within the Supervision and Control Department
Internships for financial analysts
Organizing of two 3-day seminars for the financial analysts in NOPCML on strategic analyses using IT tools and statistical methods

12. ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE COMPONENTS
Component 3: An enhanced capacity of investigation /prosecution for law enforcement bodies
Internships for prosecutors
Internship for Financial Guard representatives
Internship for policemen

13. ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE COMPONENTS
Component 4: Guidance and training for the financial and non-financial reporting entities under direct NOPCML supervision. An increased capacity of reporting entities in order to detect and report suspicious transactions
Setting up a working group formed by STEs and financial analysts within the National Office in order to draft the Handbook on risk based approach and indicators of suspicious transactions for reporting entities
Presentation and dissemination of the Handbook to the different categories of reporting entities, during six 2-day seminars, at territorial level

14. ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE COMPONENTS
Component 4: Guidance and training for the financial and non-financial reporting entities under direct NOPCML supervision. An increased capacity of reporting entities in order to detect and report suspicious transactions
Organizing six 2-days workshops, at territorial level, for the independent legal professions

15. ACHIVEMENT OF MANDATORY RESULTS AND BENCHMARKS
COMPONENT 1
Under the technical coordination of the MS experts from Poland and Czech Republic, a working group including representatives of:
National Office for the Prevention and Control of Money Laundering,
Ministry of Justice,
Public Ministry,
Ministry of Administration and Home Affaires,
Ministry of Public Finance (Financial Guard, National
Agency for Fiscal Administration),
National Bank of Romania,
Securities Supervision Commission,
Insurance Supervision Commission,
Private Pensions System Supervision Commission,
Romanian Intelligence Service
Foreign Intelligence Service,
have drafted the National Strategy on AML/CFT

16. ACHIVEMENT OF MANDATORY RESULTS AND BENCHMARKS
COMPONENT 2
Five 3- day workshops for the financial analysts within the Supervision and Control Department completed
- 10 analysts trained in supervision activities
- supervision’s documentation designed
4 internships (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Poland, Portugal)
- 16 financial analysts trained in the area of AML&C TF are able to act as trainers for new NOPCML staff and reporting entities personnel
Two 3-day seminars for the financial analysts in NOPCML on strategic analyses using IT tools and statistical methods
- 40 analysts trained in the area on strategic analyses using IT tools and statistical methods

17. ACHIVEMENT OF MANDATORY RESULTS AND BENCHMARKS
COMPONENT 3
- 4 internships for Romanian prosecutors organized ( 2x Spain, Portugal, France)
- 1 internship for Financial Guard (Poland)
- 1 internship for Police (Poland)
- 24 representatives of LEA trained and able to act as trainers in different LEA units, working in AML cases

18. ACHIVEMENT OF MANDATORY RESULTS AND BENCHMARKS
COMPONENT 4
- working group formed of two designated STEs and financial analysts from the NOPCML for drafting the Handbook on risk based approach and indicators of suspicious transactions for reporting entities
- Handbook elaborated, printed and disseminated
- Presentation and dissemination of the Handbook to the different categories of reporting entities during six 2-day seminars, at territorial level (270 representatives of the reporting entities trained)
- Six 2-days workshops, at territorial level, for the independent legal professions (180 representatives of the independent legal professions trained)

19. RESOURCES Romanian Project Team from the NOPCML
Polish Project Team from the Department of Financial Information
RTA Team
14 STEs (12 from Poland, 1 from UK, 1 from Czech Republic)

20. Why Poland?

21. Still lot of work ahead…

22. RECOMMENDATIONS
Recommendations should be inserted into the continuation of the inter-institutional work in carrying out the National Strategy on Combating Money Laundering and its Action Plan
Additional legislative improvements are needed to follow the EU best practices in the area of controlling the reporting entities (NOPCML empowered to provide the controls of credit institutions in cooperation with other supervision authorities
Introducing of the new tools like e-learning in order to provide more effective trainings for reporting entities

23. Thank you for your attention
Elzbieta Frankow-Jaskiewicz RTA Department of Financial Information Ministry of Finance Phone: E- mail: