AML Regulation

AML Regulation (AMLR)

AMLR Contents

AMLR CONTENTS
CHAPTER I AMLR - GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 1 AMLR - Subject matter and definitions
Article 1 AMLR - Subject matter
Article 2 AMLR - Definitions
SECTION 2 AMLR - Scope
Article 3 AMLR - Obliged entities
Article 4 AMLR - Exemptions for certain providers of gambling services
Article 5 AMLR - Exemptions for certain professional football clubs
Article 6 AMLR - Exemptions for certain financial activities
Article 7 AMLR - Prior notification of exemptions
SECTION 3 AMLR - Cross-border operations
Article 8 AMLR - Notification of cross-border operations and application of national law
CHAPTER II AMLR - INTERNAL POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND CONTROLS OF OBLIGED ENTITIES
SECTION 1 AMLR - Internal policies, procedures and controls, risk assessment and staff
Article 9 AMLR - Scope of internal policies, procedures and controls
Article 10 AMLR - Business-wide risk assessment
Article 11 AMLR - Compliance functions
Article 12 AMLR - Awareness of requirements
Article 13 AMLR - Integrity of employees
Article 14 AMLR - Reporting of breaches and protection of reporting persons
Article 15 AMLR - Situation of specific employees
SECTION 2 AMLR - Provisions applying to groups
Article 16 AMLR - Group-wide requirements
Article 17 AMLR - Branches and subsidiaries in third countries
SECTION 3 AMLR - Outsourcing
Article 18 AMLR - Outsourcing
CHAPTER III AMLR - CUSTOMER DUE DILIGENCE
SECTION 1 AMLR - General provisions
Article 19 AMLR - Application of customer due diligence measures
Article 20 AMLR - Customer due diligence measures
Article 21 AMLR - Inability to comply with the requirement to apply customer due diligence measures
Article 22 AMLR - Identification and verification of the identity of customers and beneficial owners
Article 23 AMLR - Timing of the verification of the customer and beneficial owner identity
Article 24 AMLR - Reporting of discrepancies with information contained in beneficial ownership registers
Article 25 AMLR - Identification of the purpose and intended nature of a business relationship or occasional transaction
Article 26 AMLR - Ongoing monitoring of the business relationship and monitoring of transactions performed by customers
Article 27 AMLR - Temporary measures for customers subject to UN financial sanctions
Article 28 AMLR - Regulatory technical standards on the information necessary for the performance of customer due diligence
SECTION 2 AMLR - Third-country policy and money laundering and terrorist financing threats from outside the Union
Article 29 AMLR - Identification of third countries with significant strategic deficiencies in their national AML/CFT regimes
Article 30 AMLR - Identification of third countries with compliance weaknesses in their national AML/CFT regimes
Article 31 AMLR - Identification of third countries posing a specific and serious threat to the Union’s financial system
Article 32 AMLR - Guidelines on money laundering and terrorist financing risks, trends and methods
SECTION 3 AMLR - Simplified due diligence
Article 33 AMLR - Simplified due diligence measures
SECTION 4 AMLR - Enhanced due diligence
Article 34 AMLR - Scope of application of enhanced due diligence measures
Article 35 AMLR - Countermeasures to mitigate money laundering and terrorist financing threats from outside the Union
Article 36 AMLR - Specific enhanced due diligence measures for cross-border correspondent relationships
Article 37 AMLR - Specific enhanced due diligence measures for cross-border correspondent relationships for crypto-asset service providers
Article 38 AMLR - Specific measures for individual third-country respondent institutions
Article 39 AMLR - Prohibition of correspondent relationships with shell institutions
Article 40 AMLR - Measures to mitigate risks in relation to transactions with a self-hosted address
Article 41 AMLR - Specific provisions regarding applicants for residence by investment schemes
Article 42 AMLR - Specific provisions regarding politically exposed persons
Article 43 AMLR - List of prominent public functions
Article 44 AMLR - Politically exposed persons who are beneficiaries of insurance policies
Article 45 AMLR - Measures for persons who cease to be politically exposed persons
Article 46 AMLR - Family members and persons known to be close associates of politically exposed persons
SECTION 5 AMLR - Specific customer due diligence provisions
Article 47 AMLR - Specifications for the life and other investment-related insurance sector
SECTION 6 AMLR - Reliance on customer due diligence performed by other obliged entities
Article 48 AMLR - General provisions relating to reliance on other obliged entities
Article 49 AMLR - Process of reliance on another obliged entity
Article 50 AMLR - Guidelines on reliance on other obliged entities
CHAPTER IV AMLR - BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP TRANSPARENCY
Article 51 AMLR - Identification of beneficial owners for legal entities
Article 52 AMLR - Beneficial ownership through ownership interest
Article 53 AMLR - Beneficial ownership through control
Article 54 AMLR - Coexistence of ownership interest and control in the ownership structure
Article 55 AMLR - Ownership structures involving legal arrangements or similar legal entities
Article 56 AMLR - Notifications
Article 57 AMLR - Identification of beneficial owners for legal entities similar to express trust
Article 58 AMLR - Identification of beneficial owners for express trusts and similar legal arrangements
Article 59 AMLR - Identification of a class of beneficiaries
Article 60 AMLR - Identification of objects of a power and default takers in discretionary trusts
Article 61 AMLR - Identification of beneficial owners of collective investment undertakings
Article 62 AMLR - Beneficial ownership information
Article 63 AMLR - Obligations of legal entities
Article 64 AMLR - Trustee obligations
Article 65 AMLR - Exceptions to obligations of legal entities and legal arrangements
Article 66 AMLR - Nominee obligations
Article 67 AMLR - Foreign legal entities and foreign legal arrangements
Article 68 AMLR - Penalties
CHAPTER V AMLR - REPORTING OBLIGATIONS
Article 69 AMLR - Reporting of suspicions
Article 70 AMLR - Specific provisions for reporting of suspicions by certain categories of obliged entities
Article 71 AMLR - Refraining from carrying out transactions
Article 72 AMLR - Disclosure to FIU
Article 73 AMLR - Prohibition of disclosure
Article 74 AMLR - Threshold-based reports of transactions in certain high-value goods
CHAPTER VI AMLR - INFORMATION SHARING
Article 75 AMLR - Exchange of information in the framework of partnerships for information sharing
CHAPTER VII AMLR - DATA PROTECTION AND RECORD RETENTION
Article 76 AMLR - Processing of personal data
Article 77 AMLR - Record retention
Article 78 AMLR - Provision of records to competent authorities
CHAPTER VIII AMLR - MEASURES TO MITIGATE RISKS DERIVING FROM ANONYMOUS INSTRUMENTS
Article 79 AMLR - Anonymous accounts and bearer shares and bearer share warrants
Article 80 AMLR - Limits to large cash payments in exchange for goods or services
CHAPTER IX AMLR - FINAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 1 AMLR - Cooperation between FIUs and the EPPO
Article 81 AMLR - Cooperation between FIUs and the EPPO
Article 82 AMLR - Requests for information to the EPPO
SECTION 2 AMLR - Cooperation between FIUs and OLAF
Article 83 AMLR - Cooperation between FIUs and OLAF
Article 84 AMLR - Requests for information to OLAF
SECTION 3 AMLR - Other provisions
Article 85 AMLR - Exercise of the delegation
Article 86 AMLR - Committee procedure
Article 87 AMLR - Review
Article 88 AMLR - Reports
Article 89 AMLR - Relation to Directive (EU) 2015/849
Article 90 AMLR - Entry into force and application
ANNEX I AMLR - Indicative list of risk variables
ANNEX II AMLR - Lower risk factors
ANNEX III AMLR - Higher risk factors
ANNEX IV AMLR
ANNEX V AMLR

AMLR Chapters & Sections

AMLR CHAPTERS & SECTIONS
CHAPTER I AMLR - GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 1 AMLR - Subject matter and definitions
SECTION 2 AMLR - Scope
SECTION 3 AMLR - Cross-border operations
CHAPTER II AMLR - INTERNAL POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND CONTROLS OF OBLIGED ENTITIES
SECTION 1 AMLR - Internal policies, procedures and controls, risk assessment and staff
SECTION 2 AMLR - Provisions applying to groups
SECTION 3 AMLR - Outsourcing
CHAPTER III AMLR - CUSTOMER DUE DILIGENCE
SECTION 1 AMLR - General provisions
SECTION 2 AMLR - Third-country policy and money laundering and terrorist financing threats from outside the Union
SECTION 3 AMLR - Simplified due diligence
SECTION 4 AMLR - Enhanced due diligence
SECTION 5 AMLR - Specific customer due diligence provisions
SECTION 6 AMLR - Reliance on customer due diligence performed by other obliged entities
CHAPTER IV AMLR - BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP TRANSPARENCY
CHAPTER V AMLR - REPORTING OBLIGATIONS
CHAPTER VI AMLR - INFORMATION SHARING
CHAPTER VII AMLR - DATA PROTECTION AND RECORD RETENTION
CHAPTER VIII AMLR - MEASURES TO MITIGATE RISKS DERIVING FROM ANONYMOUS INSTRUMENTS
CHAPTER IX AMLR - FINAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 1 AMLR - Cooperation between FIUs and the EPPO
SECTION 2 AMLR - Cooperation between FIUs and OLAF
SECTION 3 AMLR - Other provisions