The committee consulted nearly 150 authorities and experts over 18 months, after which Salvatore Iacolino, an Italian member of the EPP group, drafted the final report. It contains recommendations on how to best fight organised crime at national, European and international levels. The committee adopted it on 17 September 2013 and it will be voted on by all MEPs during the second October plenary.
The reports calls for European legislation to be harmonised it order to make it possible to tackle organised crime more effectively. This should include all member states having the same definition of organised crime, corruption and money laundering as well as better judicial and police cooperation and establishing a European public prosecutor to coordinate and improve national investigations.
In addition the committee calls for the abolisment of banking secrecy and the elimintion of EU tax havens in order drain criminals' financial resources.
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