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Financial Conglomerates Directive
Article 8
Intra-group transactions
1. Without prejudice to the sectoral rules, supplementary
supervision of intra-group transactions of regulated entities in a
financial conglomerate shall be exercised in accordance with the
rules laid down in Article 9(2) to (4), in Section 3 of this
Chapter, and in Annex II.
2. The Member States shall require regulated entities or mixed
financial holding companies to report, on a regular basis and at
least annually, to the coordinator all significant intra-group
transactions of regulated entities within a financial
conglomerate, in accordance with the rules laid down in this
Article and in Annex II.
Insofar as no definition of the thresholds referred to in the last
sentence of the first paragraph of Annex II has been drawn up, an
intra-group transaction shall be presumed to be significant if its
amount exceeds at least 5 % of the total amount of capital
adequacy requirements at the level of a financial conglomerate.
The necessary information shall be submitted to the coordinator by
the regulated entity within the meaning of Article 1 which is at
the head of the financial conglomerate or,
where the financial conglomerate is not headed by a regulated
entity within the meaning of Article 1, by the mixed financial
holding company or by the regulated entity in the financial
conglomerate identified by the coordinator after consultation with
the other relevant competent authorities and with the financial
conglomerate.
These intra-group transactions shall be subject to supervisory
overview by the coordinator.
3. Pending further coordination of Community legislation, Member
States may set quantitative limits and qualitative requirements or
allow their competent authorities to set quantitative limits and
qualitative requirements, or take other supervisory measures that
would achieve the objectives of supplementary supervision, with
regard to intra-group transactions of regulated entities within a
financial conglomerate.
4. Where a financial conglomerate is headed by a mixed financial
holding company, the sectoral rules regarding intra-group
transactions of the most important financial sector
in the financial conglomerate shall apply to that sector as a
whole, including the mixed financial holding company.
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