The Government says it notes, “with disappointment”, the European Parliament’s objection, today, to the entry into force of the European Commission’s decision to remove certain jurisdictions, including Gibraltar, from the EU’s list of ‘high-risk’ third-countries with strategic deficiencies as regards anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”).
Following a decision in 2010 by Her Majesty’s Passport Office in UK, the Gibraltar passport service will move to centralisation of passport personalisation in mainland UK in early 2015.
The Chief Executive of the Department of the Environment, Dr Liesl Torres is attending the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) conference on Biodiversity and Climate Change in Guadeloupe this week.