Model Legislation
The Global Programme against Money-Laundering (GPML) has developed, in collaboration with UNODC's Legal Advisory Section and International Monetary Fund (IMF), model laws for both common law and civil law legal systems, to assist countries in setting up their anti-money-laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) legislation in full compliance with the international legal instruments, and in particular the 40 + 9 FATF Recommendations, the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and the 2000 United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
In this regard, the following two model laws have been developed:
- The 2003 UN Model Law on Money-Laundering, Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing, which has been finalized by a panel of experts from common law countries.
- The 2005 UNODC and IMF Model-Legislation on money-laundering and financing of terrorism has been reviewed and finalized by an informal group of international civil law experts.
These model laws, which serve as working tools for Member States, are in a continuous process of upgrading, encompassing new international standards. The laws are intended to be adjusted to the particularities of national legal systems and administrative cultures.