CHAPTER IV BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP TRANSPARENCY

Article 55

Where legal entities referred to in Article 57 or legal arrangements have an ownership interest in the corporate entity, whether individually or cumulatively, or control, directly or indirectly, the corporate entity, through ownership interest or via other means, the beneficial owners shall be the natural persons who are the beneficial owners of the legal entities referred to in Article 57 or of the legal arrangements.

Article 56

Each Member State shall notify to the Commission by 10 October 2027 a list of the types of legal entities existing under its national law with beneficial owners identified in accordance with Article 51 and Article 52(4). That notification shall include the specific categories of entities, description of characteristics and, where applicable, legal basis under the national law of the Member State concerned. It shall also include an indication of whether, due to the specific form and structures of legal entities other than corporate entities, the mechanism under Article 63(4) applies, accompanied by a detailed justification of the reasons for that.

The Commission shall communicate the notification referred to in the first paragraph to other Member States.

Article 60

In the case of discretionary trusts, where beneficiaries have yet to be selected, the objects of a power and default takers shall be identified. Beneficiaries among the objects of a power shall be beneficial owners as soon as they are selected. Default takers shall be beneficial owners when the trustees fail to exercise their discretion.

Where discretionary trusts meet the conditions laid down in Article 59(2), only the class of objects of a power and default takers shall be identified. Those categories of discretionary trusts shall be notified to the Commission in accordance with paragraph 3 of that Article.

Article 66

Nominee shareholders and nominee directors of a legal entity shall maintain adequate, accurate and up-to-date information on the identity of their nominator and the nominator’s beneficial owners and disclose them, as well as their status, to the legal entity. Legal entities shall report that information to the central register.

Legal entities shall also report the information referred to in the first paragraph to obliged entities when the obliged entities are applying customer due diligence measures in accordance with Chapter III.