The Parliament adopted at second reading amendments to the Measures Against Money Laundering Act.

Among the categories of persons for whom anti-money laundering measures are mandatory, trade unions, professional organisations, legal entities with mutual organisations, central securities depositories, market operators and/or regulated markets, and reinsurers are excluded. Also excluded from the scope of the obligated persons are the privatization authorities, the public procurers, ministers and mayors of municipalities when concluding concession contracts, as well as the authorities of the National Revenue Agency and customs authorities. In the case of professional sports clubs, anti-money laundering measures shall be limited to professional football clubs.

The bodies of the National Revenue Agency and the customs authorities are obliged to provide information to the Financial Intelligence Directorate of the State Agency "National Security" immediately if, in the exercise of their statutory functions, they find facts and circumstances that may be related to money laundering, the MPs added.

The new provisions also introduce into national law the amendments to a European Directive on the taking-up and pursuit of the business of insurance and reinsurance. The amendments relate to the new role of the European Banking Authority in preventing the use of the financial system for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes.