Source: AMLA consultation paper draft
- Anti-money laundering
AMLR supplemental acts
- RTS on group-wide minimum requirements and additional measures for third-country subsidiaries and branches
Article 1 Subject and scope
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This Regulation lays down rules concerning:
the group-wide requirements according to Article 16(4) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624;
additional measures and supervisory actions to effectively handle the risk of money launderingmeans the conduct set out in Article 3, paragraphs 1 and 5, of Directive (EU) 2018/1673 including aiding and abetting, inciting and attempting to commit that conduct, whether the activities which generated the property to be laundered were carried out on the territory of a Member State or on that of a third country; knowledge, intent or purpose required as an element of that conduct may be inferred from objective factual circumstances; and terrorist financingmeans the conduct set out in Article 11 of Directive (EU) 2017/541 including aiding and abetting, inciting and attempting to commit that conduct, whether carried out on the territory of a Member State or on that of a third country; knowledge, intent or purpose required as an element of that conduct may be inferred from objective factual circumstances; to which branches or subsidiaries of obliged entities in third countriesmeans any jurisdiction, independent state or autonomous territory that is not part of the Union and that has its own AML/CFT legislation or enforcement regime; may be exposed to according to Article 17(3) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624.
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