Source: AMLA consultation paper draft
- Anti-money laundering
AMLR supplemental acts
- RTS on customer due diligence
Article 14 Identification and verification of beneficiaries of trusts and similar legal entities or arrangements
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For the purposes of Article 22(4) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624, the information obliged entities shall obtain from the trustee, legal entity or legal arrangementmeans an express trust or an arrangement which has a similar structure or function to an express trust, including fiducie and certain types of Treuhand and fideicomiso; include:
a description of the class of beneficiaries and its characteristics, which shall contain sufficient information to allow the obliged entity to determine whether individual beneficiaries are ascertainable and shall be treated as beneficial ownersmeans any natural person who ultimately owns or controls a legal entity or an express trust or similar legal arrangement;; and
relevant documents to enable the obliged entity to establish that the description is correct and up-to-date.
Obliged entities shall take risk-sensitive measures to ensure that the trustee, legal entity or legal arrangementmeans an express trust or an arrangement which has a similar structure or function to an express trust, including fiducie and certain types of Treuhand and fideicomiso; provide timely updates, including on specific material events that may lead to beneficiaries previously identified by class or characteristics becoming ascertainable and thus beneficial ownersmeans any natural person who ultimately owns or controls a legal entity or an express trust or similar legal arrangement;.
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