Article 35Countermeasures to mitigate money laundering and terrorist financing threats from outside the Union

For the purposes of Articles 29 and 31, the Commission may choose from among the following countermeasures:

(a)

countermeasures that obliged entities are to apply to persons and legal entities involving high-risk third countries and, where relevant, other countries posing a threat to the Union’s financial system consisting in:

(i)

the application of additional elements of enhanced due diligence;

(ii)

the introduction of enhanced relevant reporting mechanisms or systematic reporting of financial transactions;

(iii)

the limitation of business relationships or transactions with natural persons or legal entities from those third countries;

(b)

countermeasures that Member States are to apply with regard to high-risk third countries and, where relevant, other countries posing a threat to the Union’s financial system consisting in:

(i)

refusing the establishment of subsidiaries or branches or representative offices of obliged entities from the country concerned, or otherwise taking into account the fact that the relevant obliged entity is from a third country that does not have adequate AML/CFT regimes;

(ii)

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