The EU Anti-Money Laundering Office has opened and is looking for a head

On June 26, 2024, the regulation establishing the EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) officially came into force. Reuters reports this.

AMLA's two main objectives will be EU-wide anti-money laundering supervision and support to national financial intelligence units in European countries.

Finnish authorities have begun mass exclusion of companies from the country's trade register

The Finnish Patent and Registration Office has removed about 1,500 limited liability companies and cooperatives from the country's trade register. This was reported by the Cision News portal.

Schmidt & Schmidt previously reported that about 5,200 Finnish companies could be excluded from the trade register in 2024.

In Ukraine, registers of military personnel, real estate, tax, social services and civil status acts are being integrated

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is creating a unified register that will contain data on all recipients of social assistance, benefits and other social guarantees from the state. At the same time, it will be connected in real time with the register of persons liable for military service “Obereg”, the register of rights to real estate, the register of vehicles, the register of civil status acts and all other registers. According to information from the Judicial-Legal Gazette, the corresponding normative act has already been registered in the Verkhovna Rada.

FATF to remove Turkey from its “grey list” in the coming days

The Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) plans to remove Turkey from its “grey list” of jurisdictions subject to enhanced monitoring. Report news agency writes about this with reference to the Turkish publication Hurriyet.

Russia has adopted a law on consular legalization and request for documents

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law of the Russian Federation “On the legalization of Russian and foreign official documents and on the requisition of personal documents.” A message about this was posted on the official website of the head of state. Previously, the law was adopted by State Duma deputies and approved by the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. One of the fundamental innovations of the law will be the abolition of the ban on the export of certain personal documents of citizens from the country, which has been in force since Soviet times.

In Ukraine, the services of civil registry offices, notaries and justice authorities will be available only with an updated military ID

Before receiving government services falling under the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, local citizens of military age will have to report to the military registration and enlistment office.

The procedure for electronic apostille has changed in Kazakhstan

On June 15, 2024, changes to the procedure for providing the state service “Apostille of official documents emanating from justice authorities and other government bodies, as well as notaries of the Republic of Kazakhstan” came into force. Now an application for apostille through the Electronic Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Egov) portal with a list of required documents is submitted using an electronic digital signature (EDS).

The Apostille Convention has entered into force for Rwanda

On 5 June 2024, the Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, also known as the Apostille Convention, came into force for Rwanda.