Summary of the report
The Global Forum rated Tunisia overall Largely Compliant with the international standard on transparency and exchange of information upon request concerning its legal framework in place in January 2020 and requests handled from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2018. Since the last review of its legal framework in 2016, Tunisia has enhanced the availability of the information, in particular by establishing a National Register of Enterprises which includes a beneficial owners Register, and by strengthening its Anti-Money Laundering law. However, these legal improvements are recent and Tunisia should therefore monitor and ensure their effective implementation.
Regarding the access to information, Tunisia still has to address the deficiency identified in 2016 on the professional secrecy of the lawyers, despite the low impact of this deficiency in practice. Moreover, Tunisia must ensure that the procedure in place for obtaining banking information is effective in practice.
Tunisia answered 194 requests during the three years period under review. Some delays in answering were noted and although progresses were made since the review, Tunisia must ensure that the necessary resources remain in place for answering in time and that status updates are provided if an answer cannot be sent within 90 days.
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