Hello, we have been reminded by the associations of the provision of Article 44 of the ZPPDFT-1, according to which all associations will also have to enter in a special AJPES register both the information on the legal representative and the information on the association (legal entity):https://www.ajpes.si/Registri/Drugi_registri/Register_dejanskih_lastnikov/Splosnohttps://www.ajpes.si/novica/Vpis_podatkov_o_dejanskih_lastnikih_poslovnih_subjektov_v_Register_dejanskih_lastnikov_(eRDL)?id=342 http://www.uppd.gov.si/fileadmin/uppd.gov.si/pageuploads/ZPPDFT-1/mnenja_urada_RDL_ZPPDFT1_novica_14.11.17.pdf - on this page it is also stated, among other things, that as it appears from your e-mail, in the specific case the business entity which is obliged to identify and enter the information on its beneficial owner has the status of an association. In this case, the provision of Article 36(1) of the Law on the Protection of the Status of Companies and Enterprises (LPPDFT-1), which provides that any natural person representing such an entity shall be deemed to be the beneficial owner of the entity in which it is not possible to participate in the management by virtue of a business share, a share in the capital or a participation in the capital, comes into play. In view of the above legal basis and the statutory set of information to be entered in the register, the association will enter in the register the beneficial owner information of each natural person representing the association, as well as the above-mentioned information relating to the business entity itself. Given that all this information for associations (i.e. information on the legal representative or legal representatives and all the necessary information on the association as a legal entity) is already in the Business Register of Slovenia (also maintained by AJPES), the requirement to re-enter this information in another national register is a significant and unnecessary administrative burden for associations. Especially as both registers, i.e. the Business Register of Slovenia and the new Register of Beneficial Owners, are managed by AJPES. Associations have to arrange the data entry from 11 December (the launch of the application) until 19 January 2018. I propose that the Office for the Prevention of Money Laundering of the Republic of Slovenia or AJPES transfer the data for the associations from the publicly accessible Business Register of Slovenia to the new Register of Beneficial Owners and thus relieve the associations, which are mostly run by volunteers, of this administrative burden.