Activities of Fabienne KELLER related to 2021/0244(COD)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2019/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards access of competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through the single access point
Amendments (4)
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a directive
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
Having regard to the opinion of the EDPS on the proposal for a Directive of the European parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2019/1153 of the European parliament and of the Council, as regards access of competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through the single access point,
Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The safeguards and limitations already established by Directive (EU) 2019/1153 should also apply in respect of the possibilities to access and search bank account information, through the BAR single access point, established by the present Directive. These safeguards and limitations include those concerning the limitation to the authorities that have the power to access and search bank account information, the purposes for which the access and search may be conducted, the types of information that are accessible and searchable while respecting the principle of data minimisation, requirements applicable to the staff of the designated competent authorities, the security of the data and the logging of access and searches.
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Directive (EU) 2019/1153
Article 4
Article 4
1a. Member States shall ensure that the competent national authorities designated pursuant to Article 3(1) have .the power to access and search, directly and immediately, bank account information in other Member States available through the bank account registers (BAR) single access point put in place pursuant to Article XX of Directive (EU) YYYY/XX [the new Anti-Money Laundering Directive] when necessary for the performance of their tasks for the purposes of preventing, detecting, investigating or prosecuting a serious criminal offence or supporting a criminal investigation concerning a serious criminal offence, including the identification, tracing and freezing of the assets related to such investigation.. Member States shall also ensure that the staff of the competent authorities having access through the single access point maintain high professional standards of confidentiality and data protection, are of high integrity and are appropriately skilled.
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Directive (EU) 2019/1153
Article 4
Article 4
1a a. The following would be added as paragraph 1.1a Member States shall take adequate measures to ensure that the historical information on closed customer-account holders, bank or payment accounts and safe deposit boxes is made available through their national centralised automated mechanisms and through the single access point interconnecting the centralised automated mechanisms referred to in this paragraph for a period of at least 5 years after the closure, without prejudice to other data retention requirements allowing case-by-case decisions to facilitate criminal or administrative proceedings. The access to that information shall be deemed in accordance with data protection rules.