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<p>Twelve countries have expressed an interest in signing up to the Beneficial Ownership
Transparency Disclosure Principles which the UK launched at the Open Government Partnership
Summit in May 2019. These commit countries to developing open and free to access registers
of beneficial ownership information by 2023.</p><p>Under the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering
Directive, EU Member States are required to implement publicly accessible registers
of company beneficial ownership information. In June 2019 the governments of Guernsey,
Jersey and the Isle of Man announced that they plan to implement their own publicly
accessible registers of company beneficial ownership in line with EU norms.</p><p>In
addition a growing number of countries already have public company beneficial ownership
registers. This includes Denmark and Ukraine.</p>
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