Eligible candidates and procedural steps to accession -- The Copenhagen criteria : efforts required before and after accession -- Instruments of the pre-accession strategy : from Agenda 2000 to date -- Accession treaties : transitional arrangements and other means to ease the impact of enlargement

The fight against dirty money and financial crimes in general is a very high priority for the EU - increasingly often on the top of the agenda - in the integration mission to establish a genuine, crime free, European space. Especially, the EC has frequently addressed the problem of white collar...