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In order to facilitate its consultation and understanding, an unofficial consolidated version of Law 14/2017, of 22 June, on the prevention and fight against money laundering and terrorist financing is provided, which incorporates the latest legislative amendment due to the recent approval of Law 37/2021, of 16 December.

The Andorran Official Gazzette (BOPA) publishes Decree 147/2022, of 13-4-2022, amending Decree 111/2022, on restrictive measures in relation to the conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, which amends annexes 3 and 4 of Decree 111/2022 to include 217 natural persons and 18 legal persons, respectively.

Pursuant to the news published on March 25, 2022, you can now find at the section Publications//Forms the forms that enable the communication of the application of restrictive measures in compliance with Decree 111/2022, of 25-03-2022, on restrictive measures in relation to the conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation .

The Andorran Official Gazzette (BOPA) publishes Decree 111/2022, of 25-3-2022, on restrictive measures in relation to the conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Pursuant to Decree 111/2022, of March 25, and according to article 3.1, the UIFAND is appointed as the body controlling the instrucion, promotion, monitoring and oversight of the adopted measures, within the framework of its powers and areas of activity.In this regard, according to article 4 of the aforementioned Decree, any communication shall be addressed to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

As of today, Regulation of Law 14/2017, of 22 June, on the prevention and the fight against the laundering of money or assets and against terrorist financing published on March 9 in the Andorran Official Gazette is available in the "National legislation" section. This Regulation introduces a sixth chapter that establishes the additional measures for financial reporting entities with branches or subsidiaries in which they have a majority shareholding and that are located in other countries that do not allow the application of group policies and procedures, transposing Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/758 of 31 January 2019.

Moneyval Av5 Inf3 2021Today, February 10, 2022, UIFAND has carried out an online training on the amendments introduced by Law 37/2021, of December 16, which modifies Law 14/2017, on the prevention and fight against money laundering and terrorist financing.

This training has reached an important level of participation, with the attendance of 325 people representing the wide range of financial and non-financial reporting entities of the Principality.

pdf Please, find attached the PowerPoint document of the event (catalan version only).

A training regarding the changes introduced by Law 37/2021, of December 16, amending Law 14/2017, on the prevention and fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, has been planned by the UIFAND for February 10th, between 10-11:30h. In case you are interested in attending this training, please contact your professional association or college or the UIFAND directly at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in order to obtain the access codes.

As of today, Law 37/2021, of December 16, amending Law 14/2017, on the prevention and fight against money laundering and terrorist financing published on January 3 in the Andorran Official Gazette is available in the "National legislation" section.

Moneyval Av5 Inf3 2021Moneyval has published the third follow-up report of the 5th round of mutual evaluations of the Principality of Andorra, which was adopted on November 2021.

pdf Report (english)

The report is available in the "Moneyval" section and on the Moneyval’s website..

This report evaluates the progress made by the Principality of Andorra and the new measures that have been put in place to comply with the FATF Recommendations since the mutual evaluation conducted in 2017 and the first and second follow-up reports of December 2018 and December 2019, respectively.

On this occasion, Moneyval has upgraded to "Largely Compliant" the rating of Recommendation 8, related to non-profit organisations (NPOs), which places Andorra in a position of “Compliant” or “Largely Compliant” with 37 out of the 40 FATF Recommendations.