EU FOURTH AMLD TO INTRODUCE NATIONAL COMPANY REGISTERS ON BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
December 12th, 2014
NATIONAL authorities in the member countries of the European Union (EU) will be obliged to create central registers listing the ultimate owners of companies on their territory following a deal on the fourth EU anti-money laundering directive (AMLD) agreed on Tuesday (Dec 16) in Brussels. This was struck in ‘trilogue’ talks between the EU Council of Ministers, the European Parliament and the European Commission.The idea of introducing the registers were not included in the initial proposed draft tabled by the European Commission, but were added by the European ...
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