The Beneficial Ownership Leadership Group

Principles

• Publishing company beneficial ownership data that is freely downloadable, searchable, and reusable by the public, without a fee, proprietary software, or the need for registration.
• Implementing progressively ambitious best practice in beneficial ownership transparency, across technical, legislative, regulatory, and administrative parameters.
• Committing resources to enable improvements and iterations to data quality and standardisation.
• Contributing to the building of best practice, including by recognising the evolving illicit finance threat and considering implementing beneficial ownership transparency beyond companies to a wider group of assets classes.
• Working in partnership with civil society and enabling their role as watchdogs and users of the data.
• Engaging other partners, including governments and international institutions, to advance the objective of making beneficial ownership transparency a global norm; and
• Contributing to evaluation and impact assessment of our shared approach.

By joining the leadership group, governments publicly signal their intention to adhere to the following principles on beneficial ownership data disclosure (note: these do not represent legally-binding commitments for signatory states).