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Directive (EU) 2024/16402021/0250(COD)COM(2021)423ECON

Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing: mechanisms to be put in place by the Member States

Mechanisms to be put in place by the Member States for the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing and repealing Directive (EU) 2015/849

Stage
In force, reached 19 Jun 2024
In force
In force since 9 Jul 2024 · CELEX 32024L1640
Transposition deadline
10 Jul 2026
Procedure
Ordinary legislative procedure
Rapporteurs
Luděk Niedermayer (EPP), Paul Tang (S&D)
Lead DG
DG FISMA
Commissioner
Mairead McGuinness
Last activity
19 Jun 2024
41 entries · record as of 14 Sept 2026

Where it stands

Latest: Published in the Official Journal, 19 Jun 2024.

Show the earlier record: 27 dates, 22 Jul 2021 to 15 Mar 2024
  1. 22 Jul 2021
    • Adoption of legislative proposal by the Commission
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  2. 30 Jul 2021
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  3. 24 Sept 2021
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  4. 4 Oct 2021
    • Plenary sitting
    • Referred to committee
  5. 10 Nov 2021
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  6. 18 Nov 2021
    • Feedback on adopted proposal closed: Revision of EU rules on Anti-Money Laundering (recast), 29 responses · Commission
  7. 10 Dec 2021
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  8. 16 Dec 2021
    • Plenary sitting
  9. 20 Dec 2021
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  10. 22 Dec 2021
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  11. 10 Jan 2022
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  12. 28 Jan 2022
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  13. 17 Feb 2022
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  14. 18 May 2022
    • Committee report tabled
    • EP committee draft report
  15. 7 Jun 2022
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  16. 19 Sept 2022
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  17. 7 Dec 2022
    • Adoption of negotiating mandate by Coreper
  18. 18 Jan 2023
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  19. 28 Mar 2023
    • Committee report adopted
  20. 14 Apr 2023
    • Tabled for plenary
  21. 17 Apr 2023
    • Plenary sitting
  22. 19 Apr 2023
    • Plenary endorsed the trilogue mandate
  23. 15 May 2023
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  24. 25 Sept 2023
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  25. 14 Feb 2024
    • Endorsement of the provisional agreement by Coreper
  26. 16 Feb 2024
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  27. 15 Mar 2024
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  1. 19 Mar 2024
    • Committee approved the provisional agreement
  2. 16 Apr 2024
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  3. 24 Apr 2024
    • Debate in EP plenary
    • EP position at first reading
    • Plenary amended the proposal
    • Plenary vote
  4. 30 Apr 2024
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  5. 22 May 2024
    • Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  6. 30 May 2024
    • Approval of the EP's first reading position by the Council (adoption of the legislative act)
  7. 31 May 2024
    • Signed
  8. 19 Jun 2024
    • Published in the Official Journal
14 people

Who is on it

The Parliament's rapporteurs, shadow rapporteurs and opinion rapporteurs currently on this file.

RoleNameGroupCountryCommittee
Co-rapporteurLuděk NiedermayerEPPCZECON
Co-rapporteurPaul TangS&DNLLIBE
Shadow rapporteurClare DalyThe LeftIE
Shadow rapporteurDamien CarêmeGreens/EFAFR
Shadow rapporteurEva-Maria Alexandrova PoptchevaRenewBG
Shadow rapporteurEvelyn RegnerS&DAT
Shadow rapporteurJean-Paul GarraudPfEFR
Shadow rapporteurKarlo ResslerEPPHR
Shadow rapporteurKira Marie PETER-HANSENGreens/EFADK
Shadow rapporteurMarco ZanniPfEIT
Shadow rapporteurMartin SchirdewanThe LeftDE
Shadow rapporteurPatryk JakiECRPL
Shadow rapporteurRamona StrugariuRenewRO
Shadow rapporteurRoberts ZīleECRLV
3 acts

Delegated and implementing acts beneath it

By status: 3 planned.

ActKindStatusAdoption
Implementing act on templates and procedures for access to beneficial ownership information with a legitimate interestImplementing · RegulationPlannedQ3 2026
Implementing Regulation on the format for the submission of beneficial ownership information to the central registersImplementing · RegulationPlannedQ3 2026
Implementing act on the format for the submission of information to bank account registers and for their interconnectionImplementing · RegulationPlannedQ4 2026

Titles link to EUR-Lex where the act has been published.

1 consultation

Consultations on it

The Commission's Have Your Say consultations linked to this file. Where we publish the positions filed, the title opens them here.

ConsultationFeedback deadlineFeedback received
18 Nov 202129

Summary

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This directive harmonizes EU anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing supervision, creating a new authority for the non-financial sector. It affects national Financial Intelligence Units, supervisors for obliged entities (real estate agents, crypto-asset service providers), and the financial sector. Signed on 31 May 2024, it entered into force on 19 June 2024.

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