Recital 61

(61) In order to respect the right to the protection of personal data and the right to privacy, and to limit the impact of cross-border access to the information contained in the national centralised automated mechanisms, the scope of information accessible through the bank account registers interconnection system (‘BARIS’) would be restricted to the minimum necessary in accordance with the principle of data minimisation to allow the identification of any natural or legal persons holding or controlling bank accounts or payment accounts, securities accounts, crypto-asset accounts and safe-deposit boxes. FIUs and AMLA, as well as supervisory authorities, should be granted immediate and unfiltered access to BARIS. Member States should ensure that the staff of FIUs maintain high professional standards of confidentiality and data protection, and that they are of high integrity and are appropriately skilled. Moreover, Member States should put in place technical and organisational measures guaranteeing the security of the data to high technological standards.

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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.