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Service providers for companies and for trust assets or trustees who do not also belong to the professions listed under Section 2 (1) Nos. 10 to 12 of the Money Laundering Act (AMLA) must register with the competent supervisory authority if they do not already require registration, registration, permission or authorisation under other regulations.

This obligation only applies to service providers who provide one of the following services to third parties:

(a) the establishment of a legal person or partnership;

b) exercising the management or management function of a legal entity or a partnership, exercising the function of a partner in a partnership or exercising a comparable function,

c) Provision of a registered office, a business, administrative or postal address and other related services for a legal entity, for a partnership or for a legal arrangement pursuant to Section 3 (3) AMLA,

d) exercising the function of a trustee for a legal arrangement pursuant to Section 3 (3) AMLA,

e) exercising the function of a nominal shareholder for another person who is not a company listed on an organised market in accordance with Section 2 (11) of the Securities Trading Act, which is subject to transparency requirements in accordance with Community law with regard to voting rights or equivalent international standards,

(f) creating the possibility for another person to perform the functions referred to in points (b), (d) and (e);

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Unless otherwise required to do so, the supervisory authority may dismiss members of the management and management level of the obligated undertaking if justified facts justify the assumption that they do not have the necessary suitability or reliability.

The supervisory authority may prohibit obligated companies for which justified facts justify the assumption that the beneficial owner does not have the necessary suitability or reliability from providing the above-mentioned services.

They are service providers for companies and for trust assets or trustees and do not at the same time belong to the professions mentioned under Section 2 (1) Nos. 10 to 12 AMLA.

They do not require registration, registration, permission or authorisation in accordance with other regulations outside the Money Laundering Act.

You provide one of the following services to third parties:

(a) the establishment of a legal person or partnership;

b) exercising the management or management function of a legal person or a partnership, exercising the function of a partner in a partnership or exercising a comparable function,

c) Provision of a registered office, a business, administrative or postal address and other related services for a legal entity, for a partnership or for a legal arrangement in accordance with § 3 paragraph 3,

d) exercising the function of a trustee for a legal arrangement pursuant to Section 3 (3) AMLA,

(e) exercising the function of nominal shareholder on behalf of another person who is not a company listed on an organised market in accordance with Section 2(11) of the Securities Trading Act, which is subject to transparency requirements in accordance with Community law with regard to voting rights or equivalent international standards;

(f) making it possible for another person to perform the functions referred to in points (b), (d) and (e);

Information about the type, scope and location of the activity by the responsible person

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The obliged entity shall notify the supervisory authority of his or her specific activity.

The supervisory authority confirms the registration.

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Service providers for companies and for trust assets or trustees

(§ 2 para. 1 no. 13 AMLA):

Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Energy of the State of Brandenburg

Heinrich-Mann-Allee 107,

14473 Potsdam

Phone: +49 (0) 331 866 -1778 or +49 (0) 331 866 -1735

FAX: +49 (0) 331 866 1583

Mail: geldwaesche@mwae.brandenburg.de

• Section 51 (5b) of the Money Laundering Act (AMLA)

• Prevention of money laundering - Interpretation and application notes on the Money Laundering Act (AMLA)

Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Energy of the State of Brandenburg