The National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) published on the website of the institution, a Draft order issued by the ANAF president regarding the organization and operationalization of the Electronic Central Registrer for payment accounts and bank accounts identified by IBAN and for the approval of the procedure regarding the obligation of credit institutions, payment institutions and electronic money institutions to provide information according to article 61 of Law no. 207/2015 regarding the Fiscal Procedure Code. This order is going to repeal the ANAF president’s Order no. 3770/2015.
The ANAF Order no. 770/2015 for the approval of the Procedure on the provision of information according to article 61 of Law no. 207/2015 regarding the Fiscal Procedure Code, sets out the ANAF applicable procedure.
As a result of changes made to area-specific regulations at a European level in the past few years, an efficient and comprehensive legal framework for the approach concerning the collection of money or goods for terrorist purposes was established, by imposing the obligation for member states to identify, understand and alleviate risks related to money laundering and terrorism financing. “Thus, the amendments made by the EU Directive 2018/846concern the necessity to adopt legislative measures to combat the risks related to anonymity of electronic money transactions, such as the inclusion of providers involved in exchange services between electronic and fiduciary money (meaning, coins and banknotes nominated as having legal rate and the electronic currency of a country, accepted as a means of exchange in the issuing country) in the category of reporting entities to impose obligations on them leading to the identification of suspicious activities”, as indicated in the Report approving the normative act.
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