On Thursday, the European Commission informed Poland of the beginning of 3 infringement proceedings against a bureaucratic entity, which was referred to as "the law of the European Union". This includes anti-money laundering government and the establishment of a European single point of access to financial services information.
The beginning of proceedings by the EC means that it is the arm of EU bureaucracy that requires Poland to "fully" implement EU government within 2 months. If this does not happen, the EC can address the opinion to the government in the next step and, at a further stage, mention the complaint to the EU Court of Justice.
The European single point of access to financial services information has been launched in full against 15 associate States. The issue is the establishment and operation of a European Single Access Point (ESAP) to improve access to data for possible investors. The ESAP is to collect and make available information on entities and their products erstwhile this information is applicable to financial services, capital markets and sustainable development.
EU government provides for 3 phases of the improvement of the ESAP. The first phase will start in July 2026. The information published in accordance with the Transparency Directive, as well as the Prospectus Regulation and the Short Sale Regulation will then begin to be transmitted to the competent national authorities in order to make it available within the ESAP. In this first step, associate States had to transpose the amendments to the Transparency Directive by 10 July 2025.
On the another hand, the European Commission has initiated proceedings against 11 associate States to prevent money laundering. This is the Sixth Directive on mechanisms that associate States should introduce to prevent the usage of the financial strategy for money laundering or terrorist financing. The provisions of this Directive are addressed to the associate States, their supervisory authorities and the financial intelligence units.
In general, associate States gotta transpose most of the Directive by 10 July 2027. Until the first deadline of 10 July this year, countries had to warrant access to information on beneficiaries of real legal entities, trusts or akin agreements (including access of persons with a legitimate interest in the case).
The 3rd procedure launched against Poland on Thursday concerns the failure to implement the EC Implementing Directive on the minimum depth of firearms marking and its essential components of 2024. It amended the erstwhile 2019 Directive, which did not require a minimum depth of markings. The fresh Directive states that a method specification with a minimum marking depth of 0.0762 millimetres should be adopted to comply with the standards in force in the major markets for the export of firearms for civilian usage (United States and Canada).
In total, the EC Firearms Marking Procedure opened against 5 countries.
Source: PAP / Magdalena Cedro, Brussels
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