Complex rules, clearly seen.
Commission initiatives and AMLA single-rulebook and supervisory mandates, mapped to the FATF Recommendations. Classification is an analytical mapping, not an official FATF or Commission one.
A Regulation applies directly and identically in every Member State on the date it gives; no national law stands between it and your firm. A Directive binds Member States to a result but must first be written into twenty-seven national laws, so its deadline binds governments, not your firm directly – and in practice the national texts arrive at different speeds and in different words. AMLR is a Regulation. AMLD6 is a Directive.
An item sits in the section matching how far it has travelled, and moves as it progresses. So the same subject can appear in a different section next month without anything about it having changed except its status.
An act enters into force a few days after publication in the Official Journal: that is when it legally exists. The day it starts to bite can be years later. Each item’s status gives whichever date you can plan against and says which one it is.
Every item is mapped to the FATF Recommendations it touches. Direct means the item is the measure that implements the Recommendation; supporting or indirect means it helps without being that measure. This mapping is analytical, made for this page. It is not an official FATF or Commission classification, and should not be quoted as one.
Numbers are permanent and do not run in document order – an item keeps its number when it moves between sections, so a reference stays valid. The timeline cites these same numbers. Search covers titles, bodies and article references; AMLA narrows to AMLA’s own mandates; Direct relevance hides supporting items; Expand all opens every item at once.
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