3.2 The Office of the Co-ordinator of Economic and Environmental Activities Background In 2012, four staff members at the Office of the Co-ordinator of Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) continued to be directly involved in police-related activities, addressing good governance, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism. To this end, the Office co-operated closely with relevant thematic units, the OSCE field operations and partner organizations, such as UNODC, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the CoE, the Financial Action Task Force, and the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism (EAG). The 2012 Economic and Environmental Forum (EEF) Process, which was dedicated to “Promoting Stability and Security through Good Governance”, culminated in the adoption of the OSCE Ministerial Council Declaration on Strengthening Good Governance and Combating Corruption, Money-Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism. 11 The MC Declaration strengthened the OCEEA’s mandate and is expected to guide the OCEEA’s future activities in supporting the participating States in implementing the commitments contained therein. Counter-Terrorism On 28-29 November, at the invitation of the authorities of Montenegro, UNODC and the OSCE (TNTD/ATU and OCEEA) carried out a needs assessment mission to Podgorica to advise the authorities in charge of drafting Montenegro’s 2013-2015 Action Plan for the implementation of the 2010-2014 Strategy for Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (adopted in September 2010). The needs assessment mission included a series of working meetings with representatives of the Police Directorate, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Public Administration, the National Security Agency, the High Court in Podgorica, the Ministry of Defence and the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing. Participants identified ways that UNODC and OSCE could support the implementation of the Strategy, including through national capacity building initiatives. Financial Investigations and Money Laundering On 18-20 January, the OCEEA, the CoE and the World Bank launched the first in a series of workshops for the countries of South-Eastern Europe on Serbia’s National Money Laundering Risk Assessment. The workshop gathered representatives of Serbian government agencies, including the Interior Ministry and other law enforcement agencies, and observers from the governments of Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Slovenia to study and begin the process of conducting a money laundering national risk assessment using a World Bank methodology. The Serbian authorities conducted a national risk assessment and a concluding workshop was held on 23-24 October to review the findings and present them to senior decision-makers in the Government of Serbia. On 13-15 March, the OCEEA, together with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the World Bank, co-organized the opening workshop of the Kyrgyz Republic Money Laundering National Risk Assessment. The workshop gathered representatives from the Kyrgyz financial 11 40 OSCE, Ministerial Council Declaration on Strengthening Good Governance and Combating Corruption, MoneyLaundering and the Financing of Terrorism, Dublin, 2012.