Regulation on the (5th) amendment to the Regulation on high-risk third countries due to actions against money laundering and terrorist financing No. 105/2020.

Article 1.

In Article 1 of the Regulation, item 8 is amended and shall read as follows:

8. Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/410 of 19 December 2022 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 supplementing Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards adding the Republic of the Congo, Gibraltar, Mozambique, Tanzania and the United Arab Emirates to the table in point I of the Annex, referred to in Annex IX of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No. 252/2018 of 5 December 2018, and removing Nicaragua, Pakistan and Zimbabwe from that table. The Regulation is published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union No. 37, 11 May 2023, p. 631.

Article 2.

A new item, item 9, is added to Article 1 of the Regulation, reading as follows:

9. Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1219 of 17 May 2023 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 supplementing Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards adding Nigeria and South Africa to the table in point I of the Annex, referred to in Annex IX of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No. 252/2018 of 5 December 2018, and removing Cambodia and Morocco from that table. Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1219 is published as Annex II to this Regulation.

Article 3.

The list of high-risk third countries, published as an annex to Regulation No. 105/2020, is amended in accordance with the amendments specified in Article 2 of this Regulation. The list is published updated as Annex I to this Regulation.

Article 4.

This Regulation is issued under the authority of Article 56 of the Act on Measures against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing No. 140/2018 and enters into force immediately.

Ministry of Justice, 18 July 2023.
Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir.
Haukur Guðmundsson.

Annexes. (see PDF document)

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In the event of a discrepancy between the text that appears here in the collection and that which is published in the Section B edition of the Official Gazette, the latter shall prevail.