AMLD6, Article 61, SE

1. Member States shall ensure that policy makers, the FIUs, supervisors, including AMLA, and other competent authorities, as well as tax authorities, have effective mechanisms to enable them to cooperate and coordinate domestically concerning the development and implementation of policies and activities to combat money laundering and terrorist financing and to prevent the non-implementation and evasion of targeted financial sanctions, including with a view to fulfilling their obligations under Article 8.

2. With regard to beneficial ownership information obtained by competent authorities pursuant to Chapter IV of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 and Section 1 of Chapter II of this Directive, Member States shall ensure that competent authorities are able to provide such information to the counterpart competent authorities of other Member States or third countries in a timely manner and free of charge.

3. Member States shall not prohibit or place unreasonable or unduly restrictive conditions on the exchange of information or assistance between competent authorities and their counterparts for the purposes of this Directive. Member States shall ensure that competent authorities do not refuse a request for assistance on the grounds that:

(a)

the request is also considered to involve tax matters;

(b)

national law requires obliged entities to maintain secrecy or confidentiality, except in those cases where the relevant information that is sought is protected by legal privilege or where legal professional secrecy applies, as provided for in Article 70(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624;

(c)

there is an inquiry, investigation, proceeding or FIU analysis underway in the requested Member State, unless the assistance would impede that inquiry, investigation, proceeding or FIU analysis;

(d)

the nature or status of the requesting counterpart competent authority is different from that of requested competent authority.

Official source

Version: dff86fc6e12b8812

SHA-256: sha256:dff86fc6e12b8812e62d42d2ad5b51758017a12765e2065ff139217a10b638ff

• Article 1
• Article 2
• Article 3
• Article 4
• Article 5
• Article 6
• Article 7
• Article 8
• Article 9
• Article 10
• Article 11
• Article 12
• Article 13
• Article 14
• Article 15
• Article 16
• Article 17
• Article 18
• Article 19
• Article 20
• Article 21
• Article 22
• Article 23
• Article 24
• Article 25
• Article 26
• Article 27
• Article 28
• Article 29
• Article 30
• Article 31
• Article 32
• Article 33
• Article 34
• Article 35
• Article 36
• Article 37
• Article 38
• Article 39
• Article 40
• Article 41
• Article 42
• Article 43
• Article 44
• Article 45
• Article 46
• Article 47
• Article 48
• Article 49
• Article 50
• Article 51
• Article 52
• Article 53
• Article 54
• Article 55
• Article 56
• Article 57
• Article 58
• Article 59
• Article 60
• Article 62
• Article 63
• Article 64
• Article 65
• Article 66
• Article 67
• Article 68
• Article 69
• Article 70
• Article 71
• Article 72
• Article 73
• Article 74
• Article 75
• Article 76
• Article 77
• Article 78
• Article 79
• Article 80

Geographical article agents

Source: NovaCopilot