Art. 27 FIU annual report | Sixth anti-money laundering (AML 6) directive | AML

This article establishes a transparency and accountability obligation on each Member State's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to publish an annual report on its activities.

The article is primarily a reporting and disclosure requirement, setting out a detailed list of statistical data that must be included, covering the full lifecycle of the FIU's work: from receiving suspicious transaction reports and following up on them, to exchanging information with other FIUs and competent authorities, to its resource allocation.

Beyond raw statistics, the report must also capture qualitative intelligence on trends and typologies identified during the year.

Notably, the article includes an explicit privacy safeguard, ensuring that nothing in the published report can be used to identify any natural or legal person.

Important points:

Each Member State's FIU is required to publish an annual report covering a prescribed set of statistics on its operational activities.
The report must go beyond statistics to include information on money laundering and terrorist financing trends and typologies identified in disseminated files.
The report must be compiled in a way that does not permit the identification of any natural or legal person.

Each Member State shall ensure that its FIU publishes an annual report on its activities. The report shall contain statistics on:
1. the follow up given by the FIU to suspicious transaction and activity reports it has received;
2. suspicious transaction reports submitted by obliged entities;
3. disclosures by supervisors and central registers;
4. disseminations to competent authorities and follow-up given to those disseminations;
5. requests submitted to and received from other FIUs;
6. requests submitted to and received from competent authorities referred to in Article 2(1), point (44)(c), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624;
7. human resources allocated;
8. data on cross-border physical transfers of cash transmitted by customs authorities pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1672.
The report referred to in the first paragraph shall also contain information on the trends and typologies identified in the files disseminated to other competent authorities. The information contained in the report shall not permit the identification of any natural or legal person.