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Recital 66

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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

(66) FIUs should be able to disseminate information to competent authorities tasked with combatting money laundering, its predicate offences, and terrorist financing. Such authorities should be understood to include authorities with an investigative, prosecutorial or judicial role. Across Member States, other authorities have dedicated roles connected to the fight against money laundering, its predicate offences and terrorist financing, and FIUs should also be able to provide them with the results of their operational or strategic analyses, where they consider those results to be relevant to their functions. The results of those analyses provide meaningful intelligence to be used for the development of leads in the course of investigative and prosecutorial work. The source of the suspicious transaction or activity report should not be disclosed in the dissemination. This, however, should not preclude FIUs from disseminating relevant information including, for example, information on IBAN numbers, BIC or SWIFT codes. In addition, FIUs should be able to share other information in their possession including upon request by other competent authorities. In exercising their autonomy and independence, FIUs should consider how a refusal to provide information could impact cooperation and the broader goal of combatting money laundering, its predicate offences and terrorist financing. Refusals should be limited to exceptional circumstances, for example when the information originates from another FIU that has not consented to its further dissemination, or where the FIU has reasons to believe that the information will not be used for the purposes for which it was requested. In such cases the FIU should provide reasons for the refusal. Such reasons could include clarifying that the information is not in the possession of the FIU or that consent for further dissemination has not been granted.

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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.