On Tuesday 6 June, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached a provisional agreement on the revision of Directive 2019/1153/EC establishing a single access point to facilitate the access of national competent authorities to centralised bank accounts registers(see EUROPE B13152A18).
“Access to financial information is a crucial instrument to trace and confiscate proceeds of crimes”, commented Gunnar Strömmer, Sweden’s Minister for Justice, in a press release....