Resolution SBS No. 3227-2014: Modifying Article Two of Resolution SBS No. 2249-2013, which approved the Standard for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing applicable to Customs Agents and Authorized Owners, Consignees, or Consignors

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Lima, May 29, 2014

Resolution S.B.S.
No. 3227 -2014

The Superintendent of Banks, Insurance, and Private Pension Fund Administrators

CONSIDERING:

That, Article 3 of Law No. 27693, modified by the first complementary modifying provision of Legislative Decree No. 1106, Decree-Law on Effective Fight Against Money Laundering and Other Crimes Related to Illegal Mining and Organized Crime, established the authority of the Superintendent of Banks, Insurance, and Private Pension Fund Administrators, through the Financial Intelligence Unit of Peru (UIF-Perú), to regulate, in coordination with the supervisory bodies of the obligated subjects, aspects related to the systems for the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing of the obligated subjects required to report, in accordance with the scope of the provisions of said Law and its Regulations;

That, through Resolution SBS No. 2249-2013, the Standard for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing applicable to Customs Agents and Authorized Owners, Consignees, or Consignors to Operate as Customs Brokers was approved; which was subsequently modified by Resolution SBS No. 5388-2013, with the aim of providing that said obligated subjects must submit their operations register corresponding to the month of May 2014, within the first fifteen calendar days of the month of June 2014, and so on each month;

That, it is necessary to modify the aforementioned obligation to send the operations register mentioned in the preceding consideration, for its correct execution;

Having the approval of the UIF-Perú and the Adjunct Superintendence of Legal Advice, in coordination with the National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration - SUNAT; and in accordance with the exception conditions established in numeral 3.2 of Article 14 of Supreme Decree No. 001-2009-JUS and its modifying norms;

In exercise of the powers conferred by Law No. 29038 and Law No. 26702, in concordance with Law No. 27693, modified by Legislative Decree No. 1106; and in accordance with the exception conditions established in numeral 3.2 of Article 14 of Supreme Decree No. 001-2009-JUS;

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RESOLVES:

Article First.- Modify Article Two of Resolution SBS No. 2249-2013, which shall be drafted as follows:

“Article Second.- From the effective date of this standard, customs agents and authorized owners, consignees, or consignors to operate as customs brokers nationwide, must transmit to the UIF-Perú the information recorded in the operations register (RO), on the occasions when it requests it.

Through a multiple official letter, the obligated subject will be communicated the date from which it must transmit its RO to the UIF-Perú, in the structure, electronic medium, and in accordance with the instructions that are determined.”

Article Second.- This resolution shall enter into force the day following its publication in the Official Gazette El Peruano.

Register, communicate, and publish,

DANIEL SCHYDLOWSKY ROSENBERG
Superintendent of Banks, Insurance, and Private Pension Fund Administrators