A working timeline for the EU anti-money laundering package: AMLD VI, the directly applicable AML Regulation, AMLA, and the draft technical standards AMLA is preparing for implementation.
Legislative milestones
From proposal to application
The official legal names are Directive (EU) 2024/1640, often called AMLD VI, and Regulation (EU) 2024/1624, usually called the AMLR. This page keeps the requested title "EU AMLR 6" as a practical label.
Last checked on . Dates below distinguish final legal acts from AMLA draft regulatory work, because consultation drafts are not the same thing as adopted standards.
Commission AML/CFT action plan
The European Commission set out the reform direction that led to a single EU AML rulebook, EU-level supervision, and deeper FIU coordination.
Council and Parliament reached provisional agreement on the authority that will directly supervise selected high-risk financial entities and coordinate supervisors.
The AMLR and AMLD VI entered into force 20 days after Official Journal publication. This started the transition period rather than full day-one application.
This tracker separates AMLA consultation drafts from adopted legal acts. It starts with the draft instruments most directly tied to the AMLR, AMLD VI, and the AMLA regulation.
Draft ITS
Templates for supervisory information to AMLA
AMLA consultation on draft implementing technical standards for the common formats supervisors will use when sending information to AMLA.
Covers: supervisory reporting templates, information flows to AMLA, and consistent data formats for direct-supervision work.
Business relationships and linked occasional transactions
Draft RTS on criteria for identifying business relationships, occasional transactions, and linked transactions, including cases that may trigger lower thresholds.
Covers: when a customer interaction becomes a business relationship, how linked transactions are identified, and when occasional-transaction CDD thresholds apply.
Draft RTS on information required for standard, simplified, and enhanced customer due diligence under the AMLR.
Covers: customer identification, beneficial ownership checks, purpose and nature of the relationship, simplified CDD, and enhanced CDD information requirements.
Draft guidelines on the minimum content of business-wide risk assessments that obliged entities must carry out.
Covers: enterprise-wide ML/TF risk assessment, business model risk, customer/product/channel/geography risk factors, and governance of the BWRA process.
Draft RTS on minimum requirements for group-wide policies, procedures, controls, and parent-undertaking measures for branches and subsidiaries.
Covers: group-wide policies and controls, intra-group information sharing, EU parent identification, and additional measures for third-country branches and subsidiaries.
Draft guidelines on ongoing monitoring of business relationships and customer transactions.
Covers: transaction monitoring, activity monitoring, keeping customer information up to date, and detecting unusual or suspicious behavior over the relationship lifecycle.
