For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions apply:

(1) "centralised bank account registries" means the centralised automated mechanisms, such as central registries or central electronic data retrieval systems, put in place in accordance with Article 32a(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/849;

(2) "Asset Recovery Offices" means the national offices set up or designated by each Member State pursuant to Decision 2007/845/JHA;

(3) "Financial Intelligence Unit (“FIU”)" means an FIU as established pursuant to Article 32 of Directive (EU) 2015/849;

(4) "obliged entities" means the entities set out in Article 2(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/849;

(5) "financial information" means any type of information or data, such as data on financial assets, movements of funds or financial business relationships, which is already held by FIUs to prevent, detect and effectively combat money laundering and terrorist financing;