Anti-Money Laundering Regulation
Navigation log
Table of Contents
Chapter I – General provisions
Chapter II – Internal policies, procedures and controls of obliged entities
Chapter III – Customer due diligence
Chapter IV – Beneficial ownership transparency
Chapter V – Reporting obligations
Chapter VI – Information sharing
Chapter VII – Data protection and record retention
Chapter VIII – Measures to mitigate risks deriving from anonymous instruments
Chapter IX – Final provisions
Recitals (175)
Annexes
Chapter IV – Beneficial ownership transparency
Article 54
Coexistence of ownership interest and control in the ownership structure
Where corporate entities are owned through a multi-layered ownership structure, and in one or more chains of that structure the ownership interest and the control coexist in relation to different layers of the chain, the beneficial owners shall be:
(a) the natural persons who control, directly or indirectly, through ownership interest or via other means, legal entities that have a direct ownership interest in the corporate entity, whether individually or cumulatively;
(b) the natural persons who, whether individually or cumulatively, directly or indirectly, have an ownership interest in the corporate entity that controls, through ownership interest or via other means, the corporate entity, directly or indirectly.