{"id":2317,"date":"2015-06-18T21:31:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hocker.nl\/?p=2317\/"},"modified":"2017-07-23T21:33:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T20:33:20","slug":"registration-shareholdersbeneficial-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hocker.nl\/en\/registration-shareholdersbeneficial-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Registration of shareholders\/beneficial owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Registration of shareholders\/beneficial owners<\/strong>\u00a018 June 2015, author <a href=\"http:\/\/hocker.nl\/en\/lawyers\/detail\/paul-jongen\">Paul Jongen<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0If you are the beneficial owner of an interest (or shareholding) of 25% or more in a legal entity, then that interest will soon have to be registered in a new public database. This database will be accessible to civil-law notaries, banks, investigative bodies and other parties that are able to demonstrate a \u201clegitimate interest\u201d in having access to it. The database is expected to be introduced in the Netherlands sometime in 2017. This development is the result of the European Parliament\u2019s acceptance of the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive. Beneficial owners of shares will have to be registered by name, month and year of birth, nationality and country of residence, along with the size of the shareholding. It will no longer be possible to use a trust office as a cover. Natural persons who are beneficial owners will have to be registered. \u00a0In the meantime, work is also being carried out in the Netherlands on the introduction of a central shareholders\u2019 \u00a0register on 1 January 2016. This register will not be accessible to the public. Inspection of it will be restricted to designated (public) services for purposes of control, supervision and government tasks (which will extend to civil-law notaries). The draft legislative proposal for the central shareholders\u2019 \u00a0register, which will be administered under the Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Trade Register, is both more far-reaching and less all-encompassing than the database based on the directive. The fact is that the central shareholders\u2019 register will be limited to shareholders, not the beneficial owners of shares, in private limited companies and non-listed public limited companies. On the other hand, there will be no threshold: all shareholders will have to be listed. Civil-law notaries will be required to make the entries in the register. Only changes that take place following the act\u2019s entry into force will be registered. It will therefore take some time before the register provides a complete picture. Although the legislative proposal does not refer to the European directive, integration or coordination will be necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Registration of shareholders\/beneficial owners\u00a018 June 2015, author Paul Jongen \u00a0 \u00a0If you are the beneficial owner of an interest (or shareholding) of 25% or more in a legal entity, then that interest will soon have to be registered in a new public database. 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