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Definitions For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions apply:

(1) ‘centralised bank account registries’ means the centralised automated mechanisms, such as central registries or central electronic data retrieval systems, put in place in accordance with Article 32a(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/849;

(2) ‘Asset Recovery Offices’ means the national offices set up or designated by each Member State pursuant to Decision 2007/845/JHA;

(3) ‘Financial Intelligence Unit (“FIU”)’ means an FIU as established pursuant to Article 32 of Directive (EU) 2015/849;

(4) ‘obliged entities’ means the entities set out in Article 2(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/849;

(5) ‘financial information’ means any type of information or data, such as data on financial assets, movements of funds or financial business relationships, which is already held by FIUs to prevent, detect and effectively combat money laundering and terrorist financing;

(6) ‘law enforcement information’ means:

(i) any type of information or data which is already held by competent authorities in the context of preventing, detecting, investigating or prosecuting criminal offences;

(ii) any type of information or data which is held by public authorities or by private entities in the context of preventing, detecting, investigating or prosecuting criminal offences and which is available to competent authorities without the taking of coercive measures under national law; such information can be, inter alia, criminal records, information on investigations, information on the freezing or seizure of assets or on other investigative or provisional measures and information on convictions and on confiscations;

(7) ‘bank account information’ means the information set out in Article 16(3) of Directive (EU) 2024/1640 of the European Parliament and of the Council ();

(7a) ‘transaction records’ means the details of operations which have been carried out during a defined period through a specified payment account, as defined in Article 2, point (5), of Regulation (EU) No 260/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (), or a bank account identified by IBAN, as defined in Article 2, point (15), of that Regulation, or the details of transfers of crypto-assets, as defined in Article 3, point (10), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 of the European Parliament and of the Council ();

(7b) ‘credit institution’ means credit institution as defined in Article 2, point (5), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 of the European Parliament and of the Council ();

(7c) ‘financial institution’ means financial institution as defined in Article 2, point (6), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624;

(7d) ‘crypto-asset service provider’ means crypto-asset service provider as defined in Article 3(1), point (15), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 of the European Parliament and of the Council ();

(8) ‘money laundering’ means the conduct defined in Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2018/1673 of the European Parliament and of the Council ();

(9) ‘associated predicate offences’ means the offences referred to in point (1) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2018/1673;

(10) ‘terrorist financing’ means the conduct defined in Article 11 of Directive (EU) 2017/541 of the European Parliament and of the Council ();

(11) ‘financial analysis’ means the results of operational and strategic analysis that has already been carried out by the FIUs in the performance of their tasks, pursuant to Directive (EU) 2015/849;

(12) ‘serious criminal offences’ means the forms of crime listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2016/794.