For notaries
When may notarial work be AMLA-relevant?
The concrete activity matters. Notarisation, advice, execution and involvement in asset or property transactions should be assessed separately.
Understand role and transaction
Document the mandate, the parties, assets and your role. Then consider applicable statutory exemptions and professional practice.
If applicability is possible
Organise contracting-party identification, beneficial-owner assessment, risk review and ongoing updates in a structured file.
Further reading
The lawyers and notaries article covers advice, proceedings and notarisation.
Distinguish notarisation, advice and execution
For notarial work, record separately whether the service is limited to notarisation, includes additional advice or involves structuring, executing or transferring assets. This distinction provides the basis for the next assessment.
Which evidence is useful?
- Purpose and process of the transaction
- Contracting parties and beneficial owners
- Assets, payment routes and entities involved
- Considered exemptions and documented reasoning
From one transaction to an ongoing overview
Where applicability is possible, keep the assessment, risk review and relevant evidence together in a traceable file. Updates and recurring checks can then be linked clearly to the relevant transaction.
Legal status: 30 August 2026. Not individual legal advice.