Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10 June 1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering (OJ L 166, 28.6.1991, p. 77) and Council Framework Decision 2001/500/JHA of 26 June 2001 on money laundering, the identification, tracing, freezing, seizing and confiscation of instrumentalities and the proceeds of crime (OJ L 182, 5.7.2001, p.1) and | Article 47(2) and Article 95 |

- promoting a culture of "crime prevention", in particular by bringing together all parties involved in the prevention of crime at local or regional level (national judicial and law enforcement authorities, entrepreneurs, trade unions, NGOs, representatives of EU Institutions etc);

To ensure consistency in terms of the prevention of organised crime, electronic money institutions must also comply with the objectives of the Directive on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering (Directive 91/308 and Directive 2000/12/EC).

It will propose a strategy based on the analysis and prevention of opportunities for crime on the basis of structures for study and data analysis concerning organised crime that are needed to increase the crime-prevention capacity of the European institutions and the Member States.

The purpose of the European Forum for the prevention of organised crime is to widen the debate on prevention to all those involved, to prompt pilot initiatives and projects with a European dimension and thus cause projects to emerge that meet the conditions laid down in the financial programme.

47. Calls on the Council, the Commission, the Member States and the regions to carry out intensive information campaigns concerning the effects of organized crime and to take effective measures against the circumstances which tend to encourage involvement in organized crime; calls for these preventive measures to counteract in particular rising unemployment, social security systems with ever-greater shortcomings, increasing poverty, looser links with traditional social systems (leisure clubs, schools, churches, the family) and failures of urban planning (slums and residential ghettos); these measures should, however, also take account ...[+++]of positive experiences with community policing (particularly in the area of youth work) and recent discoveries about crime prevention, such as the fact that crime is encouraged when damage to public places is not repaired (the 'broken window theory');