The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) adopted the Revised FATF Standards on 15 February 2012 at the Plenary Meeting in Paris.

The FATF Standards have been revised to strengthen global safeguards and further protect the integrity of the financial system by providing governments with stronger tools to take action against crime, and the new standards will also address new priority areas such as corruption and tax crimes.

The FATF Standards are applied over 180 countries, including Macao SAR, with the shared objective of tackling money laundering, terrorist financing and the financing of proliferation. The latest version of these revised FATF Standards can be obtained in the website of the FATF through the following link:

http://www.fatf-gafi.org/document/50/0,3746,en_32250379_32236920_49653426_1_1_1_1,00.html