Recital 109

(109) Publication of a pecuniary sanction or administrative measure for breach of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 can have a strong dissuasive effect against repetition of such a breach. It also informs other entities of the money laundering and terrorist financing risks associated with the sanctioned obliged entity before entering into a business relationship and assists supervisors in other Member States in relation to the risks associated with an obliged entity when it operates in their Member State on a cross-border basis. For those reasons, the requirement to publish decisions on pecuniary sanctions against which there is no appeal should be confirmed, and should be extended to the publication of certain administrative measures that are applied to remedy breaches of AML/CFT requirements and to periodic penalty payments. However, any such publication should be proportionate and, in the taking of a decision whether to publish a pecuniary sanction or administrative measure, supervisors should take into account the gravity of the breach and the dissuasive effect that the publication is likely to achieve. To that end, Member States might decide to delay the publication of administrative measures against which there is an appeal when those measures are applied to remedy a breach that is not serious, repeated or systematic.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-09-04 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.