Cooperation with relevant competent authorities and notification of money laundering, terrorist financing or criminal activity
Article 67
1. The central adminsitrator and the national administrators shall cooperate with public bodies charged with the supervision of compliance under Directive 2003/87/EC and public bodies competent for the oversight of primary and secondary markets in allowances in order to ensure that they can acquire a consolidated overview of allowances markets. 2. The national administrator, its directors and its employees shall cooperate fully with the relevant competent authorities to establish adequate and appropriate procedures to forestall and prevent operations related to money laundering or terrorist financing. 3. The national administrator, its directors and its employees, shall cooperate fully with the financial intelligence unit (FIU) referred to in Article 32 of Directive (EU) 2015/849 by promptly: (a) informing the FIU, on their own initiative, where they know, suspect or have reasonable grounds to suspect that money laundering, terrorist financing or criminal activity is being or has been committed or attempted; (b) providing the FIU, at its request, with all necessary information, in accordance with the procedures established by the applicable legislation. 4. The information referred to in paragraph 2 shall be forwarded to the FIU of the Member State of the national administrator. The national measures transposing the compliance management and communication policies and procedures, referred to in Article 45(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/849, shall designate the person or persons responsible for forwarding information pursuant to this Article. 5. The Member State of the national administrator shall ensure that the national measures transposing Articles 37, 38, 39, 42 and 46 of Directive (EU) 2015/849 apply to the national administrator. 6. Account holders shall immediately report any fraud or suspected fraud to the competent national law enforcement authority. That report shall be forwarded to the national administrators.