UNODC, the World Bank, and the FIUs of Armenia, Israel, the Russia Federation, Serbia, and the United States facilitated discussions on FIU planning with stakeholders, national risk assessments, IT and security, information exchange and available international assistance. Participants expressed a desire for additional co-operation with the OSCE in both national and regional Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) initiatives. On 8 September, the OCEEA, jointly with the State Financial Monitoring Agency of Ukraine and with the support of the SPMU, organized a “Regional Round Table on Strengthening the Co-operation between Financial Intelligence Units, Supervisors, Reporting Entities and Law Enforcement Agencies in the Fight against the Laundering of Illegal Proceeds of Crime Through the Use of New Payment Methods (NPM)” in Kiev. The “Regional Round Table” brought together government representatives from the anti-money laundering and law enforcement sectors from the following countries: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, as well as international experts. It provided an opportunity for sharing best practices and expertise and contributed to improved institutional capacity of public authorities to more timely track and trace suspicious, criminal transactions through the use of NPMs. Participants discussed existing payment systems, focussing in particular on electronic money (including prepaid stored value cards), alternative remittance systems and mass cash payment systems, and discussed ways of preventing the abuse of these systems for money-laundering purposes. They also identified challenges in adopting and fully implementing appropriate national legislation and regulatory frameworks to counter the laundering of the proceeds of crime through NPMs and made recommendations for further action at the national and regional level. On 3-4 October, the OCEEA, the SPMU, the OSR/CTHB and UNODC organized an “Expert Seminar on Leveraging Anti-Money Laundering Regimes to Combat Human Trafficking” in Vienna. A key goal of the seminar was to advance the body of operational knowledge available to law enforcement, financial intelligence units and private sector compliance departments in the use of financial investigations in identifying and confiscating the proceeds and instrumentalities of human trafficking, thus increasing the capacity of states to ensure that the rights of trafficked persons are restored and they are compensated for the trauma they suffer. The seminar also aimed at highlighting the urgent need to enhance inter-agency and international co-ordination on these issues, especially in view of global economic trends which may increase the vulnerability of populations to human trafficking and forced labour. A publication based on the seminar discussions was developed during the fall and disseminated to all stakeholders. The OCEEA, in partnership with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and UNODC, has also been providing assistance to OSCE participating States seeking to conduct AML/CFT national risk assessments (NRAs). The first NRA meeting for Kazakhstan was held on 10-12 October 2011 in Astana. Corruption On 23-25 March, the OCEEA in co-operation with the OECD Anti-Corruption Network (ACN) for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship, the Special Investigation Service of Lithuania and the Chief Official Ethics Commission of Lithuania organized an “Expert Seminar on Anti-Corruption Policy and Integrity Training” in Vilnius. The seminar was attended by 60 government officials and experts from ACN countries as well as some EU countries and the USA. The participants discussed how to develop and implement more effective anti-corruption strategies; how to measure the impact and success of implemented policy measures; and how to develop ethical competences in public service. The seminar concluded with the elaboration of a set of good practices and next steps that the 32