Source: AMLA final report draft
- Anti-money laundering
AMLR supplemental acts
- RTS on criteria for business relationships and occasional transactions
Article 4 Entry into force and application
This is a draft act
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Earlier drafts: AMLA consultation paper draft (9 February 2026)
Summary What does Article 4 of the RTS on criteria for business relationships and occasional transactions say?
This is a standard entry into force and application article, setting out the timeline for when this Regulation becomes legally effective and when obliged entities must begin complying with it.
Notably, it carves out a delayed application date for a specific subset of obliged entities, giving them considerably more time to comply than the general population of obliged entities covered by the Regulation.
Important points:
- The Regulation enters into force 20 days after publication, but apply its obligations from six months after that date.
- A significant exception applies to obliged entities under Article 3, points (3)(n) and (o), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 — these entities are not required to comply until 10 July 2029.
- The Regulation is binding in its entirety and directly applicable across all Member States, meaning no national implementing legislation is required.
Springlex's summary of the article is a reading aid, not a substitute for the legal text.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from six months after the date of its entry into force, except in relation to the obliged entities referred to in Article 3, points (3)(n) and (o), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624, to which it shall apply from 10 July 2029.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
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