Art. 85 General provision | Anti-money laundering authority regulation (AMLAR) | AML

This article sets out the employment and staffing framework for the Authority.

It establishes that standard EU Staff Regulations apply as the baseline for all Authority staff, while carving out a specific exception for the Authority's most senior figures.

The Chair and Executive Board members are benchmarked against equivalent roles in the EU's General Court for pay and pensionable age purposes.

The article also addresses the Authority's ability to bring in seconded national experts and FIU delegates, with the Executive Board responsible for establishing the rules governing those arrangements.

Important points:

EU Staff Regulations apply to all Authority staff for any matter not otherwise covered by this Regulation.
The Chair of the Authority and Executive Board members have their pay and pensionable age set at the level of a Member and the Registrar of the General Court respectively, as a specific exception to the general rule.
The Executive Board is required to adopt and maintain rules for seconded national staff, covering financial arrangements such as insurance and training.

1. The Staff Regulations and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants as well as the rules adopted by agreement between the institutions of the Union for giving effect to those Staff Regulations and Conditions of Employment of Other Servants shall apply to the staff of the Authority for all matters not covered by this Regulation.
1. By way of derogation from paragraph 1 of this Article, the Chair of the Authority and the Executive Board members referred to in Article 63(1), point (b), shall be on a par with, respectively, a Member and the Registrar of the General Court regarding emoluments and pensionable age, as defined in Council Regulation (EU) 2016/300(⁴³). For aspects not covered by this Regulation or by Regulation (EU) 2016/300, the Staff Regulations and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants shall apply by analogy.
1. The Executive Board, in agreement with the Commission, shall adopt the necessary implementing measures in accordance with the arrangements provided for in Article 110 of the Staff Regulations.
1. The Authority may make use of seconded national experts or other staff not employed by the Authority including FIU delegates.
1. The Executive Board shall adopt rules regarding staff from Member States to be seconded to the Authority and update them as necessary. Those rules shall include, in particular, the financial arrangements related to those secondments, including insurance and training. Those rules shall take into account the fact that the members of staff are seconded and are to be deployed as staff of the Authority. They shall include provisions on the conditions of deployment. Where relevant, the Executive Board shall aim to ensure consistency with the rules applicable to reimbursement of the mission expenses of the statutory staff.