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Recital 16

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DIRECTIVE (EU) 2024/1640 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 31 May 2024 on the mechanisms to be put in place by Member States for the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing, amending Directive(EU) 2019/1937, and amending and repealing Directive (EU) 2015/849 (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

(16) Given the integrated nature of the international financial system and openness of the Union economy, risks associated with legal entities and legal arrangements expand beyond those in the Union territory. It is thus important that the Union and its Member States have an understanding of the exposure to risks emanating from foreign legal entities and foreign legal arrangements. Such assessment of risks does not need to address each individual foreign legal entity or foreign legal arrangement that has a sufficient link with the Union, whether by virtue of it acquiring real estate or being awarded contracts following a public procurement procedure, or because of transactions with obliged entities that allow them to access the Union’s financial system and economy. The risk assessment should however enable the Union and its Member States to understand what type of foreign legal entities and foreign legal arrangements enjoy such an access to the Union’s financial system and economy, and what types of risks are associated with that access.

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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.