Convention (2000) on mutual assistance in criminal matters: organised and financial crime, money laundering. Initiative France. 2001 Protocol

The European Parliament is again consulted on the draft Protocolto the 2000 Convention on mutual assistance in criminal matters between the Member States and of the European Union. The main provisions of the draft Protocol concern in particular: the request for information on bank accounts; requests for information on banking transactions; requests for monitoring of banking transactions; confidentiality; obligation to inform; additional requests for mutual assistance; banking secrecy; fiscal offences; political offences forwarding refusals to the Council and the involvement of Eurojust; accession of new Member States and the entry into force for Iceland and Norway.�