{"id":862,"date":"2019-12-17T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/uncategorized\/ubo-register-aangenomen\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:33:39","slug":"ubo-register-adopted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/ubo-register-aangenomen\/","title":{"rendered":"UBO register adopted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6824\" src=\"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190507_Genot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On 10 December 2019, the House of Representatives passed the bill that will establish the UBO register in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<h4>UBO<\/h4>\n<p>The UBO register records, for each legal entity, who the Ultimate Beneficial Owner is. Or, to put it simply: who the ultimate beneficial owner is. We describe the bill in our article <a href=\"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/nieuws\/the-ubo-register-is-really-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The UBO register is definitely going ahead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the European Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, the Netherlands is obliged to introduce a UBO register. The UBO register must be operational by 10 January 2020. Companies incorporated from that date onwards will be entered directly into the UBO register. Existing companies have 18 months to register.<\/p>\n<h4>Amendments<\/h4>\n<p>The House of Representatives has amended the bill in two respects. The exemption for religious communities has been removed. Furthermore, the House is introducing additional safeguards regarding access to the UBO register and is enhancing the security and privacy of the UBO.<\/p>\n<p>Access to the UBO register is granted only to individuals who have provided proof of their identity in advance. In addition, UBOs will be able to see how many times they have been looked up in the UBO register.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op 10 december 2019 heeft de Tweede Kamer het wetsvoorstel aangenomen waarmee in Nederland het UBO-register in het leven zal worden geroepen. UBO In het UBO register wordt van elke rechtspersoon vastgelegd wie de Ultimate Beneficial Owner is. Of in gewoon Nederlands: wie de uiteindelijk gerechtigde is. We beschrijven het wetsvoorstel in ons artikel Het [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}