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Sixth Anti-Money-Laundering Directive (AMLD6)
The AMLR's companion directive rebuilds the institutional plumbing: beneficial-ownership registers, supervisors, FIUs. For your office the practical edges are register access as a verification source — and the duty to report back when the register is wrong.
The requirements, article by article
The register is a source, not the truth
Central beneficial-ownership registers must hold adequate, accurate and current data — and obliged entities must consult them as part of CDD without relying on them alone.
In Sceau — Official register consultation flows for BE/NL/LU/FR/DE capture the extract on the file.
Report back when reality differs
When your own verification contradicts the register, the discrepancy must be reported to the register manager.
In Sceau — Reconciliation detects the difference; the filing itself — register, reference, substance — is recorded and closes the item.
Expect to be inspected
National supervisors — and self-regulatory bodies for the legal professions — gain harmonised inspection and sanctioning powers.
In Sceau — The inspection pack assembles the complete evidence file a supervisor asks for.
One FIU per member state
FIUs receive, analyse and disseminate reports, with strengthened powers and cross-border cooperation.
In Sceau — FIU routing per country addresses your reports to the right authority in the right format.
This page is a plain-language orientation, not legal advice. Article numbering follows the instrument as published in the Official Journal; where implementing technical standards are still in draft, we say so. The legal text always prevails.
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