# AMLR Art. 50 — Guidelines on reliance > AMLA's guidelines under AMLR Art. 50 are due by 10 July 2027, the date the AMLR itself applies. See [[Effective-dates timeline]]. - **Part of:** [[AMLR]] - **FATF keying:** [[FATF R.17 - Reliance on third parties|FATF R.17]] - **Swiss provisions:** [[GwV-FINMA Art. 28 - Conditions for third-party engagement|GwV-FINMA Art. 28]], [[GwV-FINMA Art. 29 - Modalities of third-party engagement|GwV-FINMA Art. 29]] - **Detailed citation:** GwV-FINMA Art. 28-29 ## What it requires By 10 July 2027, AMLA must issue guidelines addressed to obliged entities covering: the acceptable conditions for relying on another obliged entity's CDD information, including in remote due diligence; the roles and responsibilities of the entities involved in a reliance situation; and supervisory approaches to reliance on other obliged entities. ## Swiss position Switzerland has no dedicated soft-law guidance instrument matching AMLA's mandate. The conditions for delegating due-diligence tasks (*Beizug*) are instead set directly, as binding ordinance law, in GwV-FINMA Art. 28 (who may be engaged, and the conditions - careful selection, instruction, control capacity, or equivalent-standard exceptions within a group or with another equivalently supervised intermediary) and GwV-FINMA Art. 29 (the delegating intermediary's continuing supervisory responsibility, document-copy and plausibility-check duties). Supervisory approach is a matter for FINMA practice and any applicable SRO regulations, not a published guideline. ## Key divergences AMLR Art. 50 creates a specific EU-level guidance product from a named authority (AMLA), on a fixed deadline, addressed directly to obliged entities. The Swiss counterpart is not a guidance instrument at all: the equivalent content sits in binding ordinance provisions, GwV-FINMA Art. 28 and GwV-FINMA Art. 29, supplemented by whatever SRO regulations apply to a given intermediary category. This is a difference in legal form and source of authority - hard ordinance law plus self-regulatory rules, rather than a supervisory guideline - not only a difference in content. Both articles sit in GwV-FINMA Title 1, so they apply uniformly to all FINMA-supervised financial intermediaries, with no separate guidance layer comparable to AMLA's. ## Effective dates AMLA's guidelines under AMLR Art. 50 are due by 10 July 2027, the date the AMLR itself applies. See [[Effective-dates timeline]]. ## Authoritative text > [!quote]- Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (AMLR), Article 50 — English text (EUR-Lex, CELEX 32024R1624) > **Article 50** > *Guidelines on reliance on other obliged entities* > By 10 July 2027, AMLA shall issue guidelines addressed to obliged entities on: > (a) the conditions which are acceptable for obliged entities to rely on information collected by another obliged entity, including in the case of remote customer due diligence; > (b) the roles and responsibility of the obliged entities involved in a situation of a reliance on another obliged entity; > (c) supervisory approaches to reliance on other obliged entities. ## Sources - AMLR Art. 50 — CELEX 32024R1624 - GwV-FINMA SR 955.033.0, Art. 28 - GwV-FINMA SR 955.033.0, Art. 29