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European Union -
Financial Conglomerates Directive
Article 24
Amendments to Directive 92/49/EEC
Directive 92/49/EEC is amended as follows:
1. the following paragraph shall be inserted in Article 15:
‘1a. If the acquirer of the holdings referred to in paragraph 1 is
an insurance undertaking, a credit institution or an investment
firm authorised in another
Member State, or the parent undertaking of such an entity,
or a natural or legal person controlling such an entity, and if,
as a result of that acquisition, the undertaking in which the
acquirer proposes to hold a holding would become a subsidiary or
subject to the control of the acquirer, the assessment of the
acquisition must be subject to the prior consultation referred to
in Article 12a of Directive 73/239/EEC.’
2. Article 16(5c) shall be replaced by the following:
‘5c. This Article shall not prevent a competent authority from
transmitting
— to central banks and other bodies with a similar function in
their capacity as monetary authorities,
— where appropriate, to other public authorities responsible for
overseeing payment systems, information intended for the
performance of their task, nor shall it prevent such authorities
or bodies from communicating to the competent authorities such
information as they may need for the purposes of paragraph 4.
Information received in this context shall be subject to the
conditions of professional secrecy imposed in this Article.
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