Recital 20

(20) Considering the speed at which criminals transfer criminal assets across jurisdictions, Member States should ensure that asset recovery offices swiftly exchange information necessary for the performance of their tasks. In exceptional cases, it might be objectively justified for asset recovery offices to refuse to provide information to another requesting asset recovery office if to do so would harm national security interests of the Member State in which the asset recovery office receiving the request is located, jeopardise ongoing investigations or criminal intelligence operations, pose an imminent threat to the life or physical integrity of a person or clearly be disproportionate or irrelevant with regard to the purposes for which the information has been requested. When assessing compliance with the principles of necessity and proportionality, asset recovery offices should exercise due diligence, including with regard to the respect of fundamental rights.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-09-04 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.