trust or company service provider

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09/07/2018 – 30/06/2021 Article 3, Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive Scope: Whole act

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

‘trust or company service provider’ means any person that, by way of its business, provides any of the following services to third parties: the formation of companies or other legal persons; acting as, or arranging for another person to act as, a director or secretary of a company, a partner of a partnership, or a similar position in relation to other legal persons; providing a registered office, business address, correspondence or administrative address and other related services for a company, a partnership or any other legal person or arrangement; acting as, or arranging for another person to act as, a trustee of an express trust or a similar legal arrangement; acting as, or arranging for another person to act as, a nominee shareholder for another person other than a company listed on a regulated market that is subject to disclosure requirements in accordance with Union law or subject to equivalent international standards;

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