Article 3Identification of exposed sectors at national level

1. Where a Member State identifies that, in addition to obliged entities, entities in other sectors are exposed to money laundering and terrorist financing risks, it may decide to apply all or part of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 to those additional entities.

2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, Member States shall notify the Commission of their intention to apply all or part of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 to entities in other sectors. Such notification shall be accompanied by:

(a)

a justification of the money laundering and terrorist financing risks underpinning such intention;

(b)

an assessment of the impact that such application will have on the provision of services within the internal market;

(c)

the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 that the Member State intends to apply to those entities;

(d)

the text of the draft national measures, as well as any update thereof where the Member State has significantly altered the scope, content or implementation of those notified measures.

3. Member States shall postpone the adoption of national measures for 6 months from the date of the notification referred to in paragraph 2.

The postponement referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph shall not apply in cases where the national measure aims at addressing a serious and present threat of money laundering or terrorist financing. In that case, the notification referred to in paragraph 2 shall be accompanied by a justification as to why the Member State will not postpone its adoption.

4. Before the end of the period referred to in paragraph 3, the Commission, having consulted the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1620 (AMLA), shall issue a detailed opinion regarding whether the measure envisaged:

(a)

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