Title: Council of Europe: Action Against Economic Crime

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Council of Europe

URL: http://www.coe.int/t/DG1/LEGALCOOPERATION/ECONOMICCRIME/

Date Checked: 4/15/2008      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 4/15/2008

Topics: Banking Law; Criminal Law; Foreign Law; International Law

Other keywords: Economic crime

Contents: This site aggregates press releases, documents, and publications produced by several different committees of the Council of Europe, all relating to the topic of economic crime. "Economic crime" is defined as including corruption, money laundering, cybercrime, human trafficking, and the activities of organized crime (i.e., drug and weapons trafficking). The site also tracks activities related to the improvement of judicial cooperation in Europe. The site is well updated, although such updates consist primarily of press releases by the various projects and agencies. The site suffers from a lack of any search engine or site map, and some content is behind a "Restricted Access" firewall. The most useful feature of the site would likely be the lists of the various relevant treaties and legal instruments under each of the topic areas. Each specific treaty has, in addition to its full text, a "Summary" of the legal effect, a time line of developments in its implementation, and an "Explanatory Report" which gives a plain-language narrative of the reasoning behind it. The site also lists specific projects underway, although these pages in some cases less well updated and use numerous undefined acronyms.

Author of Annotation: J. P. Cusker