Article 31Identification of third countries posing a specific and serious threat to the Union’s financial system

1. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 85 to supplement this Regulation by identifying third countries where in exceptional cases it considers it indispensable to mitigate a specific and serious threat to the Union’s financial system and the proper functioning of the internal market posed by those third countries, and which cannot be mitigated pursuant to Articles 29 and 30.

2. The Commission, when drawing up the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 1, shall take into account in particular the following criteria:

(a)

the legal and institutional AML/CFT framework of the third country, in particular:

(i)

the criminalisation of money laundering and terrorist financing;

(ii)

measures relating to customer due diligence;

(iii)

requirements relating to record-keeping;

(iv)

requirements to report suspicious transactions;

(v)

the availability of accurate and timely information of the beneficial ownership of legal persons and arrangements to competent authorities;

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