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The Department of Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry announces that the deadline for the registration of beneficial owners in the register of beneficial owners of companies and other legal entities has been extended until 31 July 2022.
The four-month extension is given for the purpose of facilitating companies to register their beneficial owners' details in the Register, following a general demand from the business community.
We recall that the beneficial owners' register is an important tool offered by the European Union to Member States and aims at transparency, preventing and combating the use of companies for money laundering and terrorist financing.
A beneficial owner is any natural person who effectively owns or controls a legal entity, or the natural person on whose behalf the transactions or activities of a legal entity are carried out. In relation to legal entities a beneficial owner is:
- The natural person who has ultimate ownership or control of a legal entity, directly or indirectly, of a sufficient percentage of the shares or voting rights or ownership of that legal entity, including through shares in the bearer or through control by other means than a listed company on a regulated market.
(a) An indication of direct ownership is a 25% plus one share or ownership interest of more than 25% in the client held by a natural person, and (b) An indication of indirect ownership is a 25% plus one share or ownership interest of more than 25% in the client held by a legal entity that is controlled by a natural person or persons or by several legal entities that are controlled by the same natural person or persons.
- The natural person who holds a position of senior management where there is doubt that the person identified is the beneficial owner.
The process of submitting beneficial owner data to the Registry is done either by creating a profile of the company or cooperative itself in the government portal "Ariadni", and identifying him/her by physical presence in KEP, KEPO and Company Registrar's Department or in the Provincial Offices of the Ministry of Energy, or through the certified profile of the natural person in "Ariadni", for the company/cooperative to which he/she is appointed.
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