serious crimes

Definitions over time (1)

15/12/2005 – 25/12/2007 Article 3, Directive 2005/60/EC Scope: Whole act

For the purposes of this Directive the following definitions shall apply:

‘serious crimes’ means, at least: acts as defined in Articles 1 to 4 of Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA; any of the offences defined in Article 3(1)(a) of the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances; the activities of criminal organisations as defined in Article 1 of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA of 21 December 1998 on making it a criminal offence to participate in a criminal organisation in the Member States of the European Union (^{14}); fraud, at least serious, as defined in Article 1(1) and Article 2 of the Convention on the Protection of the European Communities' Financial Interests (^{15}); corruption; all offences which are punishable by deprivation of liberty or a detention order for a maximum of more than one year or, as regards those States which have a minimum threshold for offences in their legal system, all offences punishable by deprivation of liberty or a detention order for a minimum of more than six months;

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