Asset Recovery Officesmeans the national offices set up or designated by each Member State pursuant to Decision 2007/845/JHA;
associated predicate offencesmeans the offences referred to in point (1) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2018/1673;
bank account informationmeans the information set out in Article 16(3) of Directive (EU) 2024/1640 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
centralised bank account registriesmeans the centralised automated mechanisms, such as central registries or central electronic data retrieval systems, put in place in accordance with Article 32a(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/849;
credit institutionmeans credit institution as defined in Article 2, point (5), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
crypto-asset service providermeans crypto-asset service provider as defined in Article 3(1), point (15), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
financial analysismeans the results of operational and strategic analysis that has already been carried out by the FIUs in the performance of their tasks, pursuant to Directive (EU) 2015/849;
financial informationmeans any type of information or data, such as data on financial assets, movements of funds or financial business relationships, which is already held by FIUs to prevent, detect and effectively combat money laundering and terrorist financing;
financial institutionmeans financial institution as defined in Article 2, point (6), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624;
law enforcement informationmeans: such information can be, inter alia, criminal records, information on investigations, information on the freezing or seizure of assets or on other investigative or provisional measures and information on convictions and on confiscations;
money launderingmeans the conduct defined in Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2018/1673 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
obliged entitiesmeans the entities set out in Article 2(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/849;
serious criminal offencesmeans the forms of crime listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2016/794.
terrorist financingmeans the conduct defined in Article 11 of Directive (EU) 2017/541 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
transaction recordsmeans the details of operations which have been carried out during a defined period through a specified payment account, as defined in Article 2, point (5), of Regulation (EU) No 260/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council, or a bank account identified by IBAN, as defined in Article 2, point (15), of that Regulation, or the details of transfers of crypto-assets, as defined in Article 3, point (10), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 of the European Parliament and of the Council;