FIA U ANN U AL REPOR T 2011 - Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit

Table 6: Requests for co-operation and assistance (2003 – 2011)
Requests for assistance made by the FIAU
As in previous years the majority of requests for co-operation
made by the FIAU were directed to FIUs in European Union
member states. Indeed, 64 percent of all requests made
by the FIAU were made to FIUs in EU and EEA countries,
together with another 17 percent being made to FIUs in
European countries which are not members of the EU.
The FIU of the United Kingdom received the highest number
of requests for assistance, followed by the German FIU and
the FIUs of Austria, Italy, Poland, the Russian Federation and
the United States of America. A review of the contents of
Table 7 reveals that the FIU of Estonia was the only FIU within
the EU with which the FIAU did not exchange information
during 2011.
A breakdown of requests for information made by the FIAU
to foreign FIUs is provided hereunder:
26
Year
Number of requests
received by the FIAU
Annual Report 2011
Number of requests
made by the FIAU
Percentage difference between requests made by the FIAU
and requests made to the FIAU
2003 21 31 48%
2004 33 76 130%
2005 37 41 11%
2006 23 43 87%
2007 29 29 0%
2008 44 28 -36%
2009 46 83 80%
2010 45 75 67%
2011 97 142 46%
Total 375 548 46%
Chart 6: Response time for requests received and requests made by the FIAU (2011)
Percentage of Total Responses to Requests for Information
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
1 2-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 26-30 31-35 36-40 41-45 46-50 51+
Working Days
Response Time for Request Received Response Time for Requests Made
• Eighty-eight requests to the FIUs of twenty-two EU
member states.
• Three requests to the FIUs of two EEA states.
• Twenty-four requests to the FIUs of twelve European
countries not in the EU or EEA.
• Eighteen requests to 7 FIUs in the Americas.
• Eight requests to 5 Asian FIUs.
• One request to an African FIU.
Requests for assistance made to the FIAU
A review of the requests for assistance made to the FIAU
during 2011 reveals that even in the case of inward requests,
a large percentage (64 percent) also originated from EU and
EEA FIUs while sixteen percent of requests were received
from FIUs in non-EU European countries. Ten percent of the
requests received by the FIAU were made by FIUs in the
Americas while about eight percent of the requests were
made by FIUs from Asian countries.