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FATF Recommendation 29 : Competent authorities, their powers and resources
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Text of the Recommendation and Interpretative Note
See also: The full text of the 40 Recommendations, glossary and interpretative notes 
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Recommendation 29
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C. INSTITUTIONAL AND OTHER MEASURES NECESSARY IN SYSTEMS FOR COMBATING MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING
Competent authorities, their powers and resources
Supervisors should have adequate powers to monitor and ensure compliance by financial institutions with requirements to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, including the authority to conduct inspections. They should be authorised to compel production of any information from financial institutions that is relevant to monitoring such compliance, and to impose adequate administrative sanctions for failure to comply with such requirements.
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General
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Reference in this document to “countries” should be taken to apply equally to “territories” or “jurisdictions”.
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Recommendations 5-16 and 21-22 state that financial institutions or designated non-financial businesses and professions should take certain actions. These references require countries to take measures that will oblige financial institutions or designated non-financial businesses and professions to comply with each Recommendation. The basic obligations under Recommendations 5, 10 and 13 should be set out in law or regulation, while more detailed elements in those Recommendations, as well as obligations under other Recommendations, could be required either by law or regulation or by other enforceable means issued by a competent authority.
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Where reference is made to a financial institution being satisfied as to a matter, that institution must be able to justify its assessment to competent authorities.
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To comply with Recommendations 12 and 16, countries do not need to issue laws or regulations that relate exclusively to lawyers, notaries, accountants and the other designated non-financial businesses and professions so long as these businesses or professions are included in laws or regulations covering the underlying activities.
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The Interpretative Notes that apply to financial institutions are also relevant to designated non-financial businesses and professions, where applicable.
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