AMLD6, Article 16, SE

1. Member States shall put in place centralised automated mechanisms, such as central registers or central electronic data retrieval systems, which allow the identification, in a timely manner, of any natural or legal persons holding or controlling payment accounts, or bank accounts identified by IBAN, including virtual IBANs, securities accounts, crypto-asset accounts and safe-deposit boxes held by a credit institution or financial institution within their territory.

Member States shall notify the Commission of the characteristics of those national mechanisms as well as the criteria pursuant to which information is included in those national mechanisms.

2. Member States shall ensure that the information held in the centralised automated mechanisms is directly accessible in an immediate and unfiltered manner to FIUs, as well as to AMLA for the purposes of joint analyses pursuant to Article 32 of this Directive and Article 40 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1620. The information shall also be accessible in a timely manner to supervisory authorities to fulfil their obligations under this Directive.

3. The following information shall be accessible and searchable through the centralised automated mechanisms:

(a)

for customer-account holders and any person purporting to act on behalf of a customer account holder: the name, complemented by either the other identification data required under Article 22(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 or a unique identification number as well as, where applicable, the dates on which the person purporting to act on behalf of the customer started and ceased to have the power to act on behalf of the customer;

(b)

for beneficial owners of customer-account holders: the name, complemented by either the other identification data required under Article 22(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 or a unique identification number as well as the dates on which the natural person became and, where applicable, ceased to be the beneficial owner of the customer account holder;

(c)

for bank accounts or payment accounts: the IBAN number, or where the payment account is not identified by an IBAN number, the unique account identifier, and the date of account opening and, where applicable, the date of account closing;

(d)

for virtual IBANs issued by a credit institution or a financial institution: the virtual IBAN number, the unique account identifier of the account to which payments addressed to the virtual IBAN are automatically redirected, and the dates of account opening and closing;

(e)

for securities accounts: the unique identifier of the account, and the dates of account opening and closing;

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