Cross-border access to bank account registries for crime fighting

by name voted on 23.04.2024

Summary

This directive improves how authorities fight serious crime by allowing them to search bank account registries in other EU countries through a single digital point.

9 23.04.2024

Report

finance

justice

criminal law

information technology and data processing

Key points

Facilitating cross-border investigations into serious crimes like terrorism and organized crime.
Enabling authorities to access bank account registries in other EU Member States through a single digital access point.
Requiring financial institutions and crypto-asset providers to provide transaction records in standardized, easy-to-analyze electronic formats.
Implementing strict data protection safeguards, including the principle of data minimisation and mandatory logging of all searches.

Vote

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S&D

Renew

Verts/ALE

ECR

NI

ID

The Left

Total

Speeches

1 Speech in total

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Contra

Roberta METSOLA

Roberta METSOLA

PPE

0:34 min

6. Negotiations ahead of Parliament’s first reading (Rule 71)

Documents (PDFs)

DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2019/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards access of competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through the single access point DRAFT REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2019/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards access of competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through the single access point OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2019/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards access of competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through the single access point REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2019/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards access of competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through the single access point PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT RESULTING FROM INTERINSTITUTIONAL NEGOTIATIONS Proposal for a directive European Parliament and Council Access of competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through the single access point

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