The Banking Coordination (Second Council Directive) Regulations 1992

Requirements for carrying on activities etc.

1.—(1) In relation to the carrying on of a home-regulated activity by the provision of services, the requirements of this paragraph are that the institution has given to the relevant supervisory authority in its home State a notice in accordance with paragraph 2 below.

(2) In relation to the establishment of a branch, the requirements of this paragraph are—

(a) that the institution has given to the relevant supervisory authority in its home State a notice in accordance with paragraph 2 below;

(b) that the Bank has received from that authority a notice in accordance with paragraph 3 below; and

(c) that either—

(i) the Bank has informed the institution that it may establish the branch; or

(ii) the period of two months beginning with the day on which the Bank received the notice mentioned in paragraph (b) above has elapsed.

2.  A notice given by an institution to the relevant supervisory authority in its home State is given in accordance with this paragraph if it states—

(a) the United Kingdom to be a member State in which the institution proposes to carry on home-regulated activities;

(b) whether the institution intends to establish a branch in the United Kingdom;

(c) if the notice states that the institution does not intend to establish such a branch, the home-regulated activities in relation to which the notice is given; and

(d) if the notice states that the institution intends to establish such a branch, the requisite details of the branch.

3.—(1) A notice given in respect of a European authorised institution or quasi-European authorised institution by the relevant supervisory authority in its home State is in accordance with this paragraph if it—

(a) certifies that the institution is a credit institution which is for the time being authorised to act as such an institution by the authority;

(b) contains the information stated in the institution’s notice; and

(c) if the institution intends to establish a branch in the United Kingdom, contains—

(i) a statement of the amount of the institution’s own funds and the solvency ratio of the institution (calculated in accordance with the Solvency Ratio Directive(1)); and

(ii) details of any deposit guarantee scheme which is intended to secure the protection of depositors in the branch.

(2) A notice given in respect of a European subsidiary or quasi-European subsidiary by the relevant supervisory authority in its home State is in accordance with this paragraph if it—

(a) certifies that the institution is a financial institution which is a 90 per cent. subsidiary undertaking of a European institution incorporated in or formed under the law of that State;

(b) certifies that the conditions mentioned in regulation 3(6) of these Regulations are fulfilled in relation to the institution;

(c) certifies that the institution’s business is being conducted in a prudent manner;

(d) contains the information stated in the institution’s notice; and

(e) if the institution intends to establish a branch in the United Kingdom, contains a statement of the amount of the institution’s own funds and the consolidated solvency ratio of the institution’s parent undertaking (calculated in accordance with the Solvency Ratio Directive).

(3) The Bank shall as soon as practicable send a copy of any notice received by it in accordance with this paragraph, and a note of the date of its receipt, to every other authority which it knows is a connected UK authority.

(1)

Council Directive 89/647/EEC (OJ No. L386, 30.12.89, p.14), as amended by Commission Directive 91/31/EEC (OJ No. L17, 23.1.91, p.20).