The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gives a very positive assessment of the French system to combat financial crime. According to the evaluation, France plays a leading role within the European Union (EU).

The intergovernmental body of reference for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism has published a report that marks the end of a two-and-a-half-year evaluation process completed since 3 March. According to the document, the France has a strong anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism and proliferation (AML-CFT) framework.

In the report, these good results are due to the implementation of new mechanisms, some of which result from the transposition into national law of the last two European directives, in particular the creation of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office and the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office, the important legislative introduction of the 'simple presumption of the fraudulent origin of property or income', as well as the reform of the confiscation system.