The EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive and Regulation
Georgios Pavlidis
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Abstract:
This Commentary presents a structured and accessible explanation of the European Union’s framework for preventing money laundering and terrorist financing. It provides detailed commentary on the Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD6) and the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR), explaining how these rules strengthen cooperation between authorities, improve transparency and hold both individuals and companies accountable.
Keywords: Anti-Money Laundering Directive (Amld6); Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (Amlr); Financial Crime Prevention In The European Union; Eu Compliance And Supervision Framework; Beneficial Ownership Transparency; European Union Law And Enforcement Cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035347094
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Chapters in this book:
- Introduction to the EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive and Regulation
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- Article 1: Subject matter
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- Article 2: Definitions
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- Article 3: Identification of exposed sectors at national level
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- Article 4: Requirements relating to certain service providers
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- Article 5: Requirements relating to the granting of residence rights in exchange for investment
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- Article 6: Checks on the senior management and beneficial owners of certain obliged entities
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- Article 7: Risk assessment at Union level
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- Article 8: National risk assessment
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- Article 9: Statistics
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- Article 10: Central beneficial ownership registers
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- Article 11: General rules regarding access to beneficial ownership registers by competent authorities, self-regulatory bodies, and obliged entities
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- Article 12: Specific access rules to beneficial ownership registers for persons with legitimate interest
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- Article 13: Procedure for the verification and mutual recognition of a legitimate interest to access beneficial ownership information
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- Article 14: Templates and procedures
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- Article 15: Exceptions to the access rules to beneficial ownership registers
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- Article 16: Bank account registers and electronic data retrieval systems
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- Article 17: Implementing acts for the interconnection of registers
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- Article 18: Single access point to real estate information
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- Article 19: Establishment of the FIU
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- Article 20: Fundamental rights officer
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- Article 21: Access to information
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- Article 22: Responses to requests for information
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- Article 23: Provision of information to supervisors
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- Article 24: Suspension or withholding of consent
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- Article 25: Instructions to monitor transactions or activities
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- Article 26: Alerts to obliged entities
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- Article 27: FIU annual report
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- Article 28: Feedback by FIU
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- Article 29: Cooperation between FIUs
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- Article 30: Protected channels of communication
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- Article 31: Exchange of information between FIUs
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- Article 32: Joint analyses
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- Article 33: Use by FIUs of information exchanged between them
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- Article 34: Consent to further dissemination of information exchanged between FIUs
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- Article 35: Effect of criminal law provisions
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- Article 36: Confidentiality of reporting
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- Article 37: powers and resources of national supervisors
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- Article 38: Supervision of forms of infrastructure of certain intermediaries operating under the freedom to provide services
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- Article 39: Provision of information to obliged entities
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- Article 40: Risk-based supervision
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- Article 41: Central contact points
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- Article 42: Disclosure to FIUs
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- Article 43: Provision of information to FIUs
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- Article 44: General principles regarding supervisory cooperation
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- Article 45: Provision of information on cross-border activities
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- Article 46: Provisions related to cooperation in the context of group supervision
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- Article 47: Supervisory cooperation regarding obliged entities carrying out cross-border activities
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- Article 48: Exchange of information in relation to implementation of group policies in third countries
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- Article 49: AML/CFT supervisory colleges in the financial sector
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- Article 50: AML/CFT supervisory colleges in the non-financial sector
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- Article 51: Cooperation with supervisors in third countries
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- Article 52: Oversight of self-regulatory bodies
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- Article 53: General provisions
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- Article 54: Supervisory measures towards establishments of obliged entities and certain activities carried out under the freedom to provide services
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- Article 55: Pecuniary sanctions
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- Article 56: Administrative measures
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- Article 57: Periodic penalty payments
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- Article 58: Publication of pecuniary sanctions, administrative measures, and periodic penalty payments
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- Article 59: Exchange of information on pecuniary sanctions and administrative measures
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- Article 60: Reporting of breaches and protection of reporting persons
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- Article 61: General provisions
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- Article 62: Communication of the list of the competent authorities
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- Article 63: Cooperation with AMLA
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- Article 64: Cooperation in relation to credit institutions or financial institutions
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- Article 65: Cooperation in relation to auditors
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- Article 66: Cooperation with authorities in charge of implementing targeted financial sanctions
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- Article 67: professional secrecy requirements
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- Article 68: Exchange of information among supervisors and with other authorities
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- Article 69: AML/CFT cooperation guidelines
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- Article 70: Processing of certain categories of personal data
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- Article 71: Exercise of the delegation
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- Article 72: Committee procedure
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- Article 73: Transitional management of FIU.net
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- Article 74: Amendments to Directive (EU) 2015/849
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- Article 75: Amendment to Directive (EU) No 2019/1937
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- Article 76: Review
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- Article 77: Repeal
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- Article 78: Transposition
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- Article 79: Entry into force
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- Article 80: Addressees
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- Article 1: Subject matter
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- Article 2: Definitions
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- Article 3: Obliged entities
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- Article 4: Exemptions for certain providers of gambling services
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- Article 5: Exemptions for certain professional football clubs
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- Article 6: Exemptions for certain financial activities
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- Article 7: Prior notification of exemptions
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- Article 8: Notification of cross-border operations and application of national law
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- Article 9: Scope of internal policies, procedures and controls
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- Article 10: Business-wide risk assessment
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- Article 11: Compliance functions
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- Article 12: Awareness of requirements
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- Article 13: Integrity of employees
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- Article 14: Reporting of breaches and protection of reporting persons
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- Article 15: Situation of specific employees
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- Article 16: Group-wide requirements
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- Article 17: Branches and subsidiaries in third countries
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- Article 18: Outsourcing
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- Article 19: Application of customer due diligence measures
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- Article 20: Customer due diligence measures
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- Article 21: Inability to comply with the requirement to apply customer due diligence measures
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- Article 22: Identification and verification of the identity of customers and beneficial owners
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- Article 23: Timing of the verification of the customer and beneficial owner identity
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- Article 24: Reporting of discrepancies with information contained in beneficial ownership registers
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- Article 25: Identification of the purpose and intended nature of a business relationship or occasional transaction
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- Article 26: Ongoing monitoring of the business relationship and monitoring of transactions performed by customers
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- Article 27: Temporary measures for customers subject to UN financial sanctions
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- Article 28: Regulatory technical standards on the information necessary for the performance of customer due diligence
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- Article 29: Identification of third countries with significant strategic deficiencies in their national AML/CFT regimes
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- Article 30: Identification of third countries with compliance weaknesses in their national AML/CFT regimes
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- Article 31: Identification of third countries posing a specific and serious threat to the Union's financial system
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- Article 32: Guidelines on money laundering and terrorist financing risks, trends, and methods
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- Article 33: Simplified due diligence measures
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- Article 34: Scope of application of enhanced due diligence measures
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- Article 35: Countermeasures to mitigate money laundering and terrorist financing threats from outside the Union
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- Article 36: Specific enhanced due diligence measures for cross-border correspondent relationships
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- Article 37: Specific enhanced due diligence measures for cross-border correspondent relationships for crypto-asset service providers
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- Article 38: Specific measures for individual third-country respondent institutions
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- Article 39: Prohibition of correspondent relationships with shell institutions
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- Article 40: Measures to mitigate risks in relation to transactions with a self-hosted address
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- Article 41: Specific provisions regarding applicants for residence by investment schemes
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- Article 42: Specific provisions regarding politically exposed persons
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- Article 43: List of prominent public functions
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- Article 44: Politically exposed persons who are beneficiaries of insurance policies
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- Article 45: Measures for persons who cease to be politically exposed persons
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- Article 46: Family members and persons known to be close associates of politically exposed persons
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- Article 47: Specifications for the life and other investment-related insurance sector
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- Article 48: General provisions relating to reliance on other obliged entities
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- Article 49: Process of reliance on another obliged entity
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- Article 50: Guidelines on reliance on other obliged entities
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- Article 51: Identification of beneficial owners for legal entities
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- Article 52: Beneficial ownership through ownership interest
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- Article 53: Beneficial ownership through control
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- Article 54: Coexistence of ownership interest and control in the ownership structure
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- Article 55: Ownership structures involving legal arrangements or similar legal entities
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- Article 56: Notifications
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- Article 57: Identification of beneficial owners for legal entities similar to express trusts
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- Article 58: Identification of beneficial owners for express trusts and similar legal arrangements
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- Article 59: Identification of a class of beneficiaries
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- Article 60: Identification of objects of a power and default takers in discretionary trusts
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- Article 61: Identification of beneficial owners of collective investment undertakings
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- Article 62: Beneficial ownership information
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- Article 63: Obligations of legal entities
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- Article 64: Trustee obligations
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- Article 65: Exceptions to obligations of legal entities and legal arrangements
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- Article 66: Nominee obligations
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- Article 67: Foreign legal entities and foreign legal arrangements
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- Article 68: Penalties
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- Article 69: Reporting of suspicions
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- Article 70: Specific provisions for reporting of suspicions by certain categories of obliged entities
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- Article 71: Refraining from carrying out transactions
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- Article 72: Disclosure to FIU
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- Article 73: Prohibition of disclosure
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- Article 74: Threshold-based reports of transactions in certain high-value goods
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- Article 75: Exchange of information in the framework of partnerships for information sharing
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- Article 76: Processing of personal data
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- Article 77: Record retention
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- Article 78: Provision of records to competent authorities
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- Article 79: Anonymous accounts and bearer shares and bearer share warrants
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- Article 80: Limits to large cash payments in exchange for goods or services
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- Article 81: Cooperation between FIUs and the EPPO
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- Article 82: Requests for information to the EPPO
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- Article 83: Cooperation between FIUs and OLAF
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- Article 84: Requests for information to OLAF
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- Article 85: Exercise of the delegation
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- Article 86: Committee procedure
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- Article 87: Review
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- Article 88: Reports
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- Article 89: Relation to Directive (EU) 2015/849
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- Article 90: Entry into force and application
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