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Urges that this resolution be implemented by means of a European action plan for the period 2014-2019 to eradicate organised crime, corruption and money laundering, which shall provide a roadmap and adequate resources and, with due respect for the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, include as priorities — on an indicative and non-exclusive basis — the following positive actions already set out in the previous paragraphs and hereby confirmed: (i) decide on a definition of organised crime (to include, inter alia, the crime of involvement in a mafia-type organisation), corruption and money laundering (including self-laundering) to be based, inter alia, on a report on the implementation of the relevant European legislation; (ii) abolish banking secrecy; (iii) eliminate tax havens throughout the European Union and put an end to tax evasion and tax avoidance by adopting the ‘origin of wealth’ principle recommended by the OECD; (iv) guarantee full access to information on the actual owners of companies, foundations and trusts (‘beneficial ownership’), also by adapting and interconnecting Member States' business registries accordingly; (v) introduce the principle of the legal liability of legal entities — in particular of holdings and parent companies for their subsidiaries — in cases of financial crime; (vi) eradicate trafficking in human beings and forced labour, especially as regards minors and women, through tougher sanctions, and make sure that the victims of trafficking are duly protected and supported; (vii) make sports-rigging a criminal offence in order to strengthen the fight against illegal sports betting; (viii) call on Member States to make vote buying a criminal offence, even where its benefits are intangible and accrue to third parties; (ix) introduce Europe-wide corporate taxation that is as uniform, equal and homogeneous as possible; (x) strengthen the agreements on judicial and police cooperation between the Member States and between the EU and third countries; (xi) promote instruments for the seizure and confiscation of criminal assets, including additional confiscation methods such as civil law asset forfeiture, and the reuse of confiscated assets for social purposes, in compliance with the subsidiarity principle; (xii) strengthen the fight against environmental crimes and drug trafficking; (xiii) ensure swift mutual recognition, whilst fully respecting the principle of proportionality, of all judiciary measures, with particular reference to criminal judgments, confiscation orders and European arrest warrants; (xiv) provide for economic players convicted by final judgement of organised crime, corruption or money laundering to be excluded from public procurement procedures anywhere in the European Union; (xv) establish and launch the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, equipping it with the necessary human and financial resources; at the same time support European Agencies, such as Europol and Eurojust, as well as JITs and AROs; (xvi) fully comply at both Member State and EU level with the obligations laid down in the international instruments dealing with organised crime, corruption and money laundering; (xvii) recognise the relevant role of investigative journalism in identifying serious crimes; (xviii) introduce standard pan-European rules on the protection of witnesses, informers and those who cooperate with the courts; (xix) bar persons who have been sentenced by final judgement for organised crime, corruption or money laundering or other serious crimes from standing for or to hold public office, or have them removed from office; (xx) define and introduce, also on the basis of a uniform reporting system, appropriate penalties for standard types of cybercrime; (xxi) prevent corruption in the public sector through better public access to documents, specific rules on conflicts of interests and transparency registers;