intelligence unit, law enforcement agencies, bank supervisors and the private banking sector to learn the World Bank’s methodology for conducting a national risk assessment and to plan the year-long process of gathering and analysing information used to most effectively allocate state resources in the fight against money laundering. On 18 July, an OCEEA representative provided a keynote address at an OSCE training seminar on the “Identification, Seizure and Confiscation of Criminal Assets arising from Different Forms of Human Trafficking – A Practical Perspective” in Prague. Law enforcement officers from all of the OSCE participating States which host field operations were invited to attend the seminar, which was organized primarily by the TNTD/SPMU as a follow-up to the October 2011 Expert Seminar on “Leveraging Anti-Money Laundering Regimes to Combat Human Trafficking”. On 16-17 October, at the “Economic and Environmental Dimension Implementation Meeting”, the OCEEA launched the OSCE Handbook on Data Collection in Support of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing National Risk Assessments. The handbook is designed to build the capacity of the OSCE participating States to fully implement the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations 1 and 31, which relate to the collection of statistics for the purposes of evaluating the effectiveness of specific components of a national anti-money laundering regime. The handbook includes guidance for law enforcement authorities on the process of collecting, collating and reporting statistics related to investigations, prosecutions and convictions related to proceeds-producing crimes. On 4-6 December, the OSCE Centre in Astana, in partnership with the Financial Police of Kazakhstan and the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Office of the US Embassy in Kazakhstan, held a training on international mechanisms and tools to combat money laundering and terrorism financing for 70 Kazakh officials and private financial institutions. The OCEEA identified experts for the training from Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States and assisted in developing the agenda, which covered modern tools and good practices in financial investigative techniques in the banking sector. The event concluded a year-long series of training courses on good governance, anti-corruption, and combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Corruption The Economic and Environmental Committee of 11 July 2012 featured a thematic meeting on “Good Governance from a Cross-Dimensional Perspective” and featured presentations by the Rule of Law Department at the OSCE Mission to Serbia on “The Current State of Anticorruption Efforts in Serbia” and the TNTD/SPMU on “Anti-organized Crime Activities that Address Public Corruption Issues.” On 3-5 September, the OCEEA organized a seminar in Vienna on “Identifying, Restraining and Recovering Stolen Assets in the OSCE Region”, together with the Irish Chairmanship, UNODC, the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative of the World Bank, and the Basel Institute on Governance. The aim of the seminar was to provide a platform for the exchange of expertise and best practices, and to raise political awareness among OSCE participating States of the key importance asset recovery holds for the credibility and effectiveness of national and international anti-corruption efforts. The seminar brought together some 130 experts and government officials from a large number of OSCE participating States, Partners for Co-operation and international organizations including EUROPOL and INTERPOL. The main outcome of the seminar was the agreed upon Expert Conclusions document (CIO.GAL/115/12) which was circulated to all Delegations on 4 September. A consolidated summary report was prepared and circulated by the OCEEA. ****** 41