Recital 46

(46)With a view to ensuring the legality and regularity of expenditure included in the accounts submitted to the Commission under Union funding programmes, programme authorities have to collect and store in their management and control systems information on the beneficial owners of the recipients of Union funding. It is therefore necessary to ensure that programme authorities in Member States have access to beneficial ownership information held in the interconnected central registers to fulfil their duties to prevent, detect, correct and report on irregularities, including fraud, pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and the Council ¹⁸ .