Article 4 Requirements relating to certain service providers

Member States shall ensure that currency exchange and cheque cashing offices, and trust or company service providersmeans any natural or legal person that, by way of its business, provides any of the following services to third parties:the formation of companies or other legal persons;acting as, or arranging for another person to act as, a director or secretary of a company, a partner of a partnership, or a similar position in relation to other legal persons;providing a registered office, business address, correspondence address or administrative address, as well as other related services for a company, a partnership or any other legal person or legal arrangement;acting as, or arranging for another person to act as, a trustee of an express trust or performing an equivalent function for a similar legal arrangement;acting as, or arranging for another person to act as, a nominee shareholder for another person;, are either licensed or registered.

Member States shall ensure that all providers of gambling servicesmeans a service which involves wagering a stake with monetary value in games of chance, including those with an element of skill, such as lotteries, casino games, poker games and betting transactions that are provided at a physical location, or by any means at a distance, by electronic means or any other technology for facilitating communication, and at the individual request of a recipient of services; are regulated.

Member States shall ensure that obliged entitiesmeans a natural or legal person listed in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 that is not exempted in accordance with Article 4, 5, 6 or 7 of that Regulation; other than those referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 are subject to minimum registration requirements which enable supervisorsmeans the body entrusted with responsibilities aimed at ensuring compliance by obliged entities with the requirements of this Regulation, including AMLA when performing the tasks entrusted to it in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1620; to identify them.

The first subparagraph shall not apply where the obliged entitiesmeans a natural or legal person listed in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 that is not exempted in accordance with Article 4, 5, 6 or 7 of that Regulation; other than those referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 are subject to licensing or registration requirements under other Union legal acts, or to national rules regulating access to the profession or subjecting it to licensing or registration requirements which enable supervisorsmeans the body entrusted with responsibilities aimed at ensuring compliance by obliged entities with the requirements of this Regulation, including AMLA when performing the tasks entrusted to it in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1620; to identify them.