AMLR, Article 18, SE

1. Obliged entities may outsource tasks resulting from this Regulation to service providers. The obliged entity shall notify the supervisor of the outsourcing before the service provider starts to carry out the outsourced task.

2. When performing tasks under this Article, service providers shall be regarded as part of the obliged entity, including where they are required to consult the central registers referred to in Article 10 of Directive (EU) 2024/1640 (‘central registers’) for the purposes of carrying out customer due diligence on behalf of the obliged entity.

The obliged entity shall remain fully liable for any action, whether an act of commission or omission, connected to the outsourced tasks that are carried out by service providers.

For each outsourced task, the obliged entity shall be able to demonstrate to the supervisor that it understands the rationale behind the activities carried out by the service provider and the approach followed in their implementation, and that such activities mitigate the specific risks to which the obliged entity is exposed.

3. The tasks outsourced pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article shall not be undertaken in such a way as to impair materially the quality of the obliged entity’s policies and procedures to comply with the requirements of this Regulation and of Regulation (EU) 2023/1113, and of the controls in place to test those policies and procedures. The following tasks shall not be outsourced under any circumstances:

(a)

the proposal and approval of the obliged entity’s business-wide risk assessment pursuant to Article 10(2);

(b)

the approval of the obliged entity’s internal policies, procedures and controls pursuant to Article 9;

(c)

decision on the risk profile to be attributed to the customer;

(d)

the decision to enter into a business relationship or carry out an occasional transaction with a client;

(e)

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