# AMLR Art. 43 — List of prominent public functions > The AMLR applies from 10 July 2027. See [[Effective-dates timeline]]. - **Part of:** [[AMLR]] - **FATF keying:** [[FATF R.12 - Politically exposed persons|FATF R.12]] - **Swiss provisions:** _none_ - **Detailed citation:** - ## What it requires Each Member State must issue and keep up to date a list of the exact functions that qualify as prominent public functions under Article 2(1), point (34), must ask each international organisation accredited on its territory to do the same, and must notify those lists and any changes to the Commission and to AMLA. The Commission keeps the Union-level list, assembles a single consolidated list and publishes it in the Official Journal; AMLA makes it publicly available on its website. ## Swiss position No Swiss provision corresponds. Switzerland defines politically exposed persons by abstract statutory category rather than by enumerating offices: GwG Art. 2a Abs. 1 Bst. a to c describes foreign, domestic and international-organisation politically exposed persons, and Abs. 5 defines international sports federations as the International Olympic Committee and the non-governmental organisations it recognises which regulate one or more official sports at global level. Applying that description to individual office-holders is left to the financial intermediary. No Swiss authority is charged with compiling, notifying or publishing a list of prominent public functions. ## Key divergences The AMLR converts the definition into a published, maintained instrument: national lists, lists from accredited international organisations, a Union list, and a single consolidated list in the Official Journal and on the AMLA website, backed by an implementing-act power on format (Art. 43(2)) and a delegated-act power under Art. 85 to add categories common to several Member States. Switzerland has no counterpart at any level. The Swiss definition is self-executing and applied institution by institution, so a Swiss intermediary has no official register of functions to work from and no notification duty; the AMLR by contrast makes the scope of the PEP concept a matter of published administrative record that obliged entities can consult. ## Effective dates The AMLR applies from 10 July 2027. See [[Effective-dates timeline]]. ## Authoritative text > [!quote]- Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (AMLR), Article 43 — English text (EUR-Lex, CELEX 32024R1624) > **Article 43** > *List of prominent public functions* > 1. Each Member State shall issue and keep up-to-date a list indicating the exact functions which, in accordance with its national laws, regulations and administrative provisions, qualify as prominent public functions for the purposes of Article 2(1), point (34). Member States shall request each international organisation accredited on their territories to issue and keep up-to-date a list of prominent public functions at that international organisation for the purposes of Article 2(1), point (34). Those lists shall also include any function which may be entrusted to representatives of third countries and of international bodies accredited at Member State level. Member States shall notify those lists, as well as any change made to them, to the Commission and to AMLA. > 2. The Commission may set out, by means of an implementing act, the format for the establishment and communication of the Member States’ lists of prominent public functions pursuant to paragraph 1. That implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 86(2). > 3. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 85 to supplement Article 2(1), point (34), where the lists notified by Member States pursuant to paragraph 1 identify common additional categories of prominent public functions and those categories of prominent public functions are of relevance for the Union as a whole. > When drawing up delegated acts pursuant to the first subparagraph, the Commission shall consult AMLA. > 4. The Commission shall draw up and keep up-to-date the list of the exact functions which qualify as prominent public functions at the level of the Union. That list shall also include any function which may be entrusted to representatives of third countries and of international bodies accredited at Union level. > 5. The Commission shall assemble, based on the lists provided for in paragraphs 1 and 4 of this Article, a single list of all prominent public functions for the purposes of Article 2(1), point (34). The Commission shall publish that single list in the Official Journal of the European Union. AMLA shall make that list publicly available on its website. ## Sources - AMLR Art. 43 - CELEX 32024R1624 - GwG SR 955.0, Art. 2a - GwV-FINMA SR 955.033.0, Art. 13