Recital 37

(37) FIUs, other competent authorities and self-regulatory bodies should have immediate, unfiltered, direct and free access to information on beneficial ownership for the purposes of preventing, detecting, investigating and prosecuting money laundering, its predicate offences or terrorist financing. Obliged entities should also have access to central registers when carrying out customer due diligence. Member States can choose to make access by obliged entities subject to the payment of a fee. However, those fees should be strictly limited to what is necessary to cover the costs of ensuring the quality of the information held in those registers and of making the information available, and should not undermine the effective access to beneficial ownership information.

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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.