# AMLR Art. 84 — Requests to OLAF > AMLR Art. 84 applies from 10 July 2027, alongside the rest of the AMLR. See [[Effective-dates timeline]]. - **Part of:** [[AMLR]] - **FATF keying:** [[FATF R.2 - National cooperation and coordination|FATF R.2]], [[FATF R.29 - Financial intelligence units|FATF R.29]] - **Swiss provisions:** _none_ - **Detailed citation:** - ## What it requires AMLR Art. 84(1) requires OLAF to respond in a timely manner to reasoned FIU requests for information needed for the FIU's functions under Chapter III of Directive (EU) 2024/1640. Art. 84(2) lets OLAF postpone or refuse to provide the information where doing so would likely have a negative impact on an ongoing investigation, but requires OLAF to communicate any postponement or refusal, with reasons, to the requesting FIU in a timely manner. ## Swiss position Switzerland has no counterpart to OLAF and no body under a reciprocal duty to answer MROS requests in this way. MROS's own channels run to different counterparties and in different directions: GwG Art. 30 lets MROS share information with a foreign FIU that meets stated safeguards, and GwG Art. 32 governs its cooperation with foreign criminal-prosecution authorities; neither imposes an obligation on a European Commission body to respond to MROS. No Swiss provision is mapped to this article. ## Key divergences As with Art. 82, this is a structural non-equivalence: OLAF exists only within the EU institutional framework under Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013, and Switzerland, outside the EU, has no institution performing that role or bound to answer MROS. The FATF-keying correction to R.2/R.29 applies for the same reason given at Art. 81/83 - OLAF is a Commission body, not a foreign counterpart FIU in the R.40 sense. Art. 84(2)'s postponement/refusal mechanism, tied to protecting an ongoing investigation, has no Swiss-side counterpart recorded here because there is no Swiss obligation for this article to attach a refusal ground to. ## Effective dates AMLR Art. 84 applies from 10 July 2027, alongside the rest of the AMLR. See [[Effective-dates timeline]]. ## Authoritative text > [!quote]- Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (AMLR), Article 84 — English text (EUR-Lex, CELEX 32024R1624) > **Article 84** > *Requests for information to OLAF* > 1. OLAF shall respond in a timely manner to reasoned requests for information by an FIU where that information is necessary for the performance of the FIU’s functions under Chapter III of Directive (EU) 2024/1640. > 2. OLAF may postpone or refuse the provision of the information referred to in paragraph 1 where providing it would be likely to have a negative impact on an ongoing investigation. OLAF shall communicate such postponement or refusal to the requesting FIU in a timely manner, including the reasons therefor. ## Sources - AMLR Art. 84 — CELEX 32024R1624 - GwG SR 955.0, Art. 30, Art. 32 (background only, not part of the frozen mapping)