The FATF Plenary issued a statement concerning Turkey, reviewed the voluntary tax compliance programmes in Curaçao and published the follow-up report to the mutual evaluation report of Hong Kong, China. The Plenary also revised two Best Practices Papers and the Reference Guide and Information Note on the use of the FATF Recommendations to support the fight against Corruption.

The FATF Plenary issued a statement concerning Turkey, reviewed the voluntary tax compliance programmes in Curaçao, Spain and Pakistan and issued three new reports which outline new methods and trends in money laundering and terrorist financing.

This follow-up report provides an overview of the main changes made to the AML/CFT system in Spain since the adoption of the mutual evaluation report of Spain in June 2006. In October 2010, the FATF recognised that Spain had made significant progress in addressing deficiencies identified in their mutual evaluation report and decided that the country should be removed from the regular follow-up process.

The key findings of the FATF Third Mutual Evaluation Report of Spain which was adopted by the FATF Plenary in June 2006.

Under the Presidency of Spain, the FATF made significant progress in the work on noncooperative countries or territories and the development of FATF-style regional bodies. The South American Financial Action Task Force, GAFISUD, was created.