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On the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2019/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards access of competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through the single access point
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On the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2019/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards access of competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through the single access point
Document ECON-AD-700736 · COM(2021)0429 – C90338/2021 – 2021/0244(COD)
- Kind
- Opinion parliamentary committee ECON-AD-700736
- Date
- 15 March 2022
- Committee
- Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Rapporteur
- Inese Vaidere
- Dossier
- 2021-0244
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- COM(2021)0429 – C90338/2021 – 2021/0244(COD)
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The Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs calls on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, as the committee responsible, to take into account the following amendments:
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
|---|---|
| (2a) Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) should endeavour to exchange financial information or financial analysis to prevent and combat money laundering, the associated predicate offences and terrorist financing more effectively as provided in Directive (EU) 2015/849. |
| Present text | Amendment |
|---|---|
| (-1) Article 1(1) is replaced by the following: | |
| This Directive lays down measures to facilitate access to and the use of financial information and bank account information by competent authorities for the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of serious criminal offences. It also lays down measures to facilitate access to law enforcement information by Financial Intelligence Units (‘FIUs’) for the prevention and combating of money laundering, associate predicate offences and terrorist financing and measures to facilitate cooperation between FIUs. | "This Directive lays down measures to facilitate access to and the use of financial information and bank account information by competent authorities for the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of serious criminal offences. It also lays down measures to facilitate access to law enforcement information by Financial Intelligence Units (‘FIUs’) for the prevention and combating of money laundering, associate predicate offences and terrorist financing.” |
Measures to facilitate cooperation between FIUs should be carried out under the legal basis provided by the Anti-money Laundering Directive.
| Present text | Amendment |
|---|---|
| Article 9 | (1a) Article 9 is deleted. |
| Exchange of information between FIUs of different Member States | |
| 1. Member States shall ensure that in exceptional and urgent cases, their FIUs are entitled to exchange financial information or financial analysis that may be relevant for the processing or analysis of information related to terrorism or organised crime associated with terrorism. | |
| 2. Member States shall ensure that in the cases referred to in paragraph 1 and subject to their operational limitations, FIUs endeavour to exchange such information promptly. |
Art 53 of the current AMLD5 introduces a broad legal basis for exchange of information between FIUs regarding money laundering and predicate offences, including terrorism. Article 9 of Directive (EU) 2019/1153 has therefore introduced an inconsistency regarding the legal basis for the exchange of information between FIUs in the EU, and, to avoid legal uncertainty, it should be deleted. Article 53 of the AMLD5 - and its replacing Article 24 of the Commission proposal for AMLD6 - should be the sole legal basis for exchange of information between FIUs.
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| Title | Amending Directive (EU) 2019/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards access of competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through the single access point | |
| References | COM(2021)0429 – C9-0338/2021 – 2021/0244(COD) | |
| Committee responsible Date announced in plenary | LIBE 13.9.2021 | |
| Opinion by Date announced in plenary | ECON 13.9.2021 | |
| Rapporteur for the opinion Date appointed | Inese Vaidere 16.9.2021 | |
| Discussed in committee | 13.1.2022 | |
| Date adopted | 14.3.2022 | |
| Result of final vote | +: –: 0: | 46 3 7 |
| Members present for the final vote | Rasmus Andresen, Gunnar Beck, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Stefan Berger, Gilles Boyer, Carlo Calenda, Engin Eroglu, Markus Ferber, Jonás Fernández, Raffaele Fitto, Frances Fitzgerald, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, Luis Garicano, Valentino Grant, Claude Gruffat, Enikő Győri, Eero Heinäluoma, Michiel Hoogeveen, Danuta Maria Hübner, Stasys Jakeliūnas, France Jamet, Othmar Karas, Billy Kelleher, Ondřej Kovařík, Aurore Lalucq, Aušra Maldeikienė, Pedro Marques, Costas Mavrides, Csaba Molnár, Siegfried Mureşan, Luděk Niedermayer, Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos, Piernicola Pedicini, Lídia Pereira, Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Dragoş Pîslaru, Evelyn Regner, Antonio Maria Rinaldi, Alfred Sant, Joachim Schuster, Ralf Seekatz, Pedro Silva Pereira, Paul Tang, Irene Tinagli, Ernest Urtasun, Inese Vaidere, Johan Van Overtveldt, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Marco Zanni, Roberts Zīle | |
| Substitutes present for the final vote | Manon Aubry, Karima Delli, Maximilian Krah, Chris MacManus, Andreas Schwab, Linea Søgaard-Lidell | |
| Substitutes under Rule 209(7) present for the final vote | Silvia Modig |
Final vote by roll call in committee asked for opinion 4 blocks
46 · For
- ID
- Antonio Maria Rinaldi, Marco Zanni
- No group
- Enikő Győri
- EPP
- Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Stefan Berger, Markus Ferber, Frances Fitzgerald, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, Danuta Maria Hübner, Othmar Karas, Aušra Maldeikienė, Siegfried Mureşan, Luděk Niedermayer, Lídia Pereira, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Andreas Schwab, Ralf Seekatz, Inese Vaidere
- Renew
- Gilles Boyer, Carlo Calenda, Engin Eroglu, Luis Garicano, Billy Kelleher, Ondřej Kovařík, Dragoş Pîslaru, Linea Søgaard-Lidell, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin
- S&D
- Jonás Fernández, Eero Heinäluoma, Aurore Lalucq, Pedro Marques, Costas Mavrides, Csaba Molnár, Evelyn Regner, Alfred Sant, Joachim Schuster, Pedro Silva Pereira, Paul Tang, Irene Tinagli
- Greens
- Rasmus Andresen, Karima Delli, Claude Gruffat, Stasys Jakeliūnas, Piernicola Pedicini, Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, Ernest Urtasun
7 · Abstained
- ECR
- Raffaele Fitto, Michiel Hoogeveen, Johan Van Overtveldt, Roberts Zīle
- ID
- Valentino Grant, France Jamet
- The Left
- Chris MacManus
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European Parliament (2022). “OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2019/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards access of competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through the single access point”. Text, 15 March 2022. docId ECON-AD-700736. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/ECON-AD-700736 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/ECON-AD-700736 (CC BY 4.0).
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author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2019/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards access of competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through the single access point}},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-03-15},
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url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/ECON-AD-700736},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId ECON-AD-700736. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
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