Source: OJ L, 2024/1640, 19.6.2024Current language: EN
- Anti-money laundering
Basic legislative acts
- Sixth anti-money laundering (AML 6) directive
Article 35 Effect of criminal law provisions
Summary What does Article 35 of the Sixth anti-money laundering (AML 6) directive say?
This brief but important article acts as a safeguard to the inter-FIU cooperation framework established in the preceding articles (31–34).
It ensures that technical legal differences between Member States — specifically how they each define predicate offences in national law — cannot be used as a justification to block or restrict the exchange, dissemination, or use of information between FIUs.
Important points:
- Diverging national definitions of predicate offences must not obstruct FIUs from providing assistance to one another.
- The information flows established under Articles 31, 32, 33, and 34 are explicitly protected from being limited on this basis.
- FIUs are required to maintain cooperation regardless of definitional inconsistencies across Member State legal systems.
Springlex's summary of the article, a reading aid, not a substitute for the legal text.
Differences between national law definitions of predicate offences shall not impede the ability of FIUs to provide assistance to another FIU and shall not limit the exchange, dissemination and use of information pursuant to Articles 31, 32, 33 and 34.
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