Article 12Specific access rules to beneficial ownership registers for persons with legitimate interest

1. Member States shall ensure that any natural or legal person that can demonstrate a legitimate interest in the prevention and combating of money laundering, its predicate offences and terrorist financing has access to the following information on beneficial owners of legal entities and legal arrangements held in the interconnected central registers referred to in Article 10, without alerting the legal entity or legal arrangement concerned:

(a)

the name of the beneficial owner;

(b)

the month and year of birth of the beneficial owner;

(c)

the country of residence and nationality or nationalities of the beneficial owner;

(d)

for beneficial owners of legal entities, the nature and extent of the beneficial interest held;

(e)

for beneficial owners of express trusts or similar legal arrangements, the nature of the beneficial interest.

In addition to the information referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph, Member States shall ensure that any natural or legal persons referred to in paragraph 2, points (a), (b) and (e), also has access to historical information on the beneficial ownership of the legal entity or the legal arrangement, including of legal entities or legal arrangements that have been dissolved or ceased to exist in the preceding 5 years, as well as a description of the control or ownership structure.

Access pursuant to this paragraph shall be granted through electronic means. However, Member States shall ensure that natural and legal persons who can demonstrate a legitimate interest are also able to access the information in other formats if they are unable to use electronic means.

2. The following natural or legal persons shall be deemed to have a legitimate interest to access the information listed in paragraph 1:

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