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title: "Article 25 — Instructions to monitor transactions or activities"
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source: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L1640"
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shortTitle: "Article 25 — Instructions to monitor transactions or activities"
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*In force · Directive (EU) 2024/1640, OJ L, 2024/1640, 19.6.2024 · Verified 9 Nov 2026 · [Official source](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2024/1640/oj/eng)*

Member States shall ensure that FIUs are empowered to instruct obliged entities to monitor, for a period to be specified by the FIU, the transactions or activities that are being carried out through one or more bank accounts or payment accounts or crypto-asset accounts or other business relationships managed by the obliged entity for persons who present a significant risk of money laundering, its predicate offences or terrorist financing. Member States shall also ensure that FIUs are empowered to instruct the obliged entity to report on the results of the monitoring.

Member States shall ensure that FIUs are empowered to impose monitoring measures as referred to in this Article at the request of an FIU from another Member State.

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