Organized by the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Seminar on “MONEY LAUNDERING - INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN THE MACAU SAR” begins Monday, November 1st, at 6:30 pm, in the Auditorium of the Public Administration Building located in Rua do Campo n.° 162, basement 1.

Integrated in the 2nd EU-Macao Co-operation Program in the Legal Field, the seminar will have as speakers Professor Michael Kilchling, Senior Researcher of Foreign and International Criminal Law Department of Criminology at the Max Planck Institute and Lecturer of Faculty of Law at the University of Freiburg, Germany and Professor Jorge A. F. Godinho, Associate Professor of Faculty of Law at the University of Macau.

This seminar will be conducted in English, with simultaneous translation to Cantonese and Portuguese, and has about 70 participants enrolled. During the five daily sessions, taking place between 18:30 and 20:30, until the 8th of November, the following subjects will be discussed: (1) money laundering control: origins, concepts and components; definitions; extension of money laundering control: new areas and aggravated measures; (2) international actors and instruments promoting money laundering control; (3) implementation of money laundering control in selected civil and common law jurisdictions; (4) the crime of money laundering and financing of terrorism in Macau law; (5) confiscation of proceeds of crime; prevention and detection mechanisms.

The 2nd EU-Macao Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field, in which this seminar is integrated, has as its main objective the “Strengthening the Future of the Macao Legal System” and will be undertaken until December 2012. With a global budget of 1.500.000 Euros (approximately 16.500.000 Patacas), this programme is co-financed by the European Union and the Macao Foundation, with the remaining costs being supported by the MSAR’s budget.

The implementation of the Co-operation Programme is coordinated by the International Law Bureau (GADI), with the participation of several other MSAR’s entities, namely the Legal and Judicial Training Centre (CFJJ), the Legal Affairs Bureau (DSAJ), the Economic Services (DSE), the Financial Services Bureau (DSF) and the Institute of European Studies of Macau (IEEM).