Recital 65

(65) The staff of FIUs should be of high integrity and appropriately skilled, and should maintain high professional standards. FIUs should have in place procedures to effectively prevent and manage conflicts of interest. Given the nature of their work, FIUs are recipients of, and have access to, large amounts of sensitive personal and financial information. Therefore, the staff of FIUs should have appropriate skills when it comes to the ethical use of big data analytical tools. Moreover, the activities of FIUs might have implications for individuals’ fundamental rights, such as the right to the protection of personal data, right to private life and right to property. FIUs should therefore designate a Fundamental Rights Officer who can be a member of the existing staff of the FIU. The tasks of the Fundamental Rights Officer should include, without impeding or delaying the activities of the FIU, monitoring and promoting the FIU’s compliance with fundamental rights, providing advice and guidance to the FIU on fundamental rights implications of its policies and practices, scrutinising the lawfulness and ethics of the FIU’s activities and issuing non-binding opinions. The designation of a Fundamental Rights Officer would help to ensure that in carrying out their tasks, FIUs respect and protect fundamental rights of affected individuals.

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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.