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Financial Conglomerates Directive
CHAPTER II: SUPPLEMENTARY SUPERVISION
SECTION 1: SCOPE
Article 5
Scope of supplementary supervision of regulated entities referred
to in Article 1
1. Without prejudice to the provisions on supervision contained in
the sectoral rules, Member States shall provide for the
supplementary supervision of the regulated entities referred to in
Article 1, to the extent and in the manner prescribed in
this Directive.
2. The following regulated entities shall be subject to
supplementary supervision at the level of the financial
conglomerate in accordance with Articles 6 to 17:
(a) every regulated entity which is at the head of a financial
conglomerate;
(b) every regulated entity, the parent undertaking of which is a
mixed financial holding company which has its head office in the
Community;
(c) every regulated entity linked with another financial sector
entity by a relationship within the meaning of Article 12(1) of
Directive 83/349/EEC.
Where a financial conglomerate is a subgroup of another financial
conglomerate which meets the requirements of the first
subparagraph, Member States may apply Articles 6 to 17 to the
regulated entities within the latter group only and any reference
in the Directive to the terms group and financial conglomerate
will then be understood as referring to that latter group.
3. Every regulated entity which is not subject to supplementary
supervision in accordance with paragraph 2, the parent undertaking
of which is a regulated entity or a
mixed financial holding company, having its head office outside
the Community, shall be subject to supplementary supervision at
the level of the financial conglomerate to the
extent and in the manner prescribed in Article 18.
4. Where persons hold participations or capital ties in one or
more regulated entities or exercise significant influence over
such entities without holding a participation or capital ties,
other than the cases referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3, the
relevant competent authorities shall, by common agreement and in
conformity with national law, determine whether and to what extent
supplementary supervision of the regulated entities is to be
carried out, as if they constitute a financial conglomerate.
In order to apply such supplementary supervision, at least one of
the entities must be a regulated entity as referred to in Article
1 and the conditions set out in Article 2(14)(d) and (e) must be
met.
The relevant competent authorities shall take their decision,
taking into account the objectives of the supplementary
supervision as provided for by this Directive.
For the purposes of applying the first subparagraph to
‘cooperative groups’, the competent authorities must take into
account the public financial commitment of these groups with
respect to other financial entities.
5. Without prejudice to Article 13, the exercise of supplementary
supervision at the level of the financial conglomerate shall in no
way imply that the competent authorities are required to play a
supervisory role in relation to mixed financial holding companies,
third-country regulated entities in a financial conglomerate or
unregulated entities in a
financial conglomerate, on a stand-alone basis.
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