Legal Framework
Below are the necessary links to access the texts relating to the general framework for combating money laundering and terrorist financing (AML/CFT), national coordination, and financial sanctions.
General Framework and National AML/CFT Coordination
This link provides access to the latest consolidated version of the 2004 AML/CFT Law, as compiled by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF).
The new law of July 22, 2026, […], establishes a legal framework to enable the CRF to provide professionals subject to Article 2, paragraph 1, items 1 and 20 of the AML/CFT Law with typologies and information on significant fraud risks related to fraud and attempted fraud as defined in Book II, Title IX, Chapter II of the Penal Code, as well as the laundering of the proceeds of such offenses, carried out on a large scale against unspecified victims, or employing social engineering techniques targeting specific victims.
- The amended Act of March 7, 1980, on the Organisation of the Judiciary;
- The amended Act of November 12, 2004, on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism.
National Coordination
These links provide access to the texts concerning the establishment, composition, and operation of the Committee for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing.
These legislative clarifications strengthen the powers of the Committee for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. They also transpose Articles 8 and 9 of Directive (EU) 2024/1640 on the mechanisms to be established by Member States to prevent the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing.
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