Increased customer due diligence measures – EU updates Regulation on high-risk third countries
21, Apr 2022
Businesses and persons, including gambling operators, are obligated to take increased customer due diligence measures under section 17(2) of the Anti-Money Laundering Act if players are from a country listed in the European Union’s Delegated Regulation on high-risk third countries. The Delegated Regulation has been updated several times since 2016, so we recommend that gambling operators pay attention to this.
The Danish Gambling Authority emphasise that the European Union has decided to update the Delegated Regulation again so that countries are both added and removed from the list. The listed countries are available on the European Commission's website and is now as follows:
Afghanistan, Barbados, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Haiti, Iran, Jamaica, Jordan, Mali, Morocco, Myanmar/Burma, Nicaragua, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Pakistan, Panama, the Philippines, Senegal, South Sudan, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zimbabwe.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact the Danish Gambling Authority’s AML team on hvidvask@spillemyndigheden.dk.