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Target audience
AMLA’s public consultations are open to all stakeholders with an interest in the EU’s anti‑money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) framework. We particularly welcome contributions from financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professions, civil society organisations, academia, sectoral federations and organisations, and other relevant parties.
Why we are consulting
Public input on these draft guidelines is essential to ensure that the criteria it contains are effective and can be applied by all obliged entities in practice.
Articles 16 and 17 AMLR cover the requirements regarding the design and implementation of group-wide AML/CFT frameworks, including their application across cross-border group structures and in situations where branches or subsidiaries operate in third countries. The purpose of the mandates under articles 16(4) and 17(3) AMLR is to clarify further these provisions in Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS).
In addition to addressing organisational aspects related to group-wide requirements, these RTS furthermore define provisions related to information sharing among entities of a group. It also provides criteria for identifying the parent undertaking in the European Union in cases of two or more obliged entities in the EU belonging to a head office in a third country. It further extends group-wide requirements to structures other than groups and provides criteria to identify the parent undertaking in the EU in those cases.
The mandates under articles 16(4) and 17(3) AMLR are inherently interlinked, reinforcing each other through cross-reference obligations and complementary requirements.
Public Hearing
A Public Hearing on this draft regulatory instrument is planned for 20 May 2026, 10.00-12.00 CET.
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