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The Authority shall perform the following tasks with respect to financial supervisors: (a) maintain an up-to-date list of financial supervisors within the Union; (b) carry out periodic assessments to ensure that all financial supervisors have adequate resources, powers and strategies necessary for the performance of their tasks in the area of AML/CFT, and make the results of such assessments available; (c) take, in response to a request by financial supervisors for the Authority to assume direct supervision or on the Authority’s own initiative, appropriate measures in exceptional circumstances requiring the Authority’s intervention and related to non-selected obliged entities’ compliance or risk exposure; (d) facilitate the functioning of the AML/CFT supervisory colleges in the financial sector; (e) contribute, in collaboration with financial supervisors, to the convergence of supervisory practices and the promotion of high supervisory standards in the area of AML/CFT, including in relation to verification of compliance with AML/CFT requirements related to targeted financial sanctions; (f) coordinate staff and information exchanges among financial supervisors in the Union in the area of AML/CFT; (g) provide assistance, in the area of AML/CFT, to financial supervisors, following their specific requests, including requests to mediate between financial supervisors; (h) settle, with binding effect, disagreements between financial supervisors concerning the measures to be taken in relation to an obliged entity, including in the context of AML/CFT supervisory colleges, following a specific request as referred to in point (g).

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