1. Third countries with significant strategic deficiencies in their national AML/CFT regimes shall be identified by the Commission and designated as 'high-risk third countries'.
2. In order to identify third countries as referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 85 to supplement this Regulation, where:
(a) significant strategic deficiencies in the legal and institutional AML/CFT framework of the third country have been identified;
(b) significant strategic deficiencies in the effectiveness of the third country's AML/CFT system in addressing money laundering and terrorist financing risks or in its system to assess and mitigate risks of non-implementation or evasion of UN financial sanctions relating to proliferation financing have been identified;
(c) the significant strategic deficiencies identified under points (a) and (b) are of a persistent nature and no measures to mitigate them have been taken or are
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