Among the different systems adopted in Europe, those of Italy and Spain place the greatest burden of assessment on persons required to make reports, who are asked to make an accurate prior evaluation in order to report only truly suspicious cases.
In the United Kingdom, where even simple anomalies must be reported, more than 200,000 transaction reports were made in 2006, aggravating the task of the UK’s Financial Intelligence Unit in sifting the transactions for further investigation. France and the Netherlands use more composite methods.