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The peer review of the activities of an FIU shall include an assessment of, but shall not be limited to, the following: (a) the adequacy of the FIU’s resources, including human and technical and IT resources, to perform its functions; (b) the measures implemented to ensure that the FIU has operational independence and autonomy and is not subject to undue influence; (c) the measures that the FIU has put in place to protect the security and confidentiality of information; (d) the FIU’s function to receive suspicious transaction reports and other disclosures, including the number and nature of disclosures received and their quality; (e) the measures that the FIU has put in place to enhance the reporting of suspicious transactions by obliged entities, in particular in relation to their quality; (f) the FIU’s access to and use of additional information to enrich its analysis; (g) the tools used by the FIU to carry out an analysis; (h) the extent to which the FIU’s analysis and dissemination support the operational needs of authorities competent for the investigation and prosecution of money laundering, its predicate offences and terrorist financing; (i) domestic cooperation between the FIU and other competent authorities; (j) cross-border cooperation between the FIU and FIUs from other Member States.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-09-04