SCHEDULE 3EEA Passport Rights
Part I Defined terms
EEA firm
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“EEA firm” means any of the following if it does not have its F1relevant office in the United Kingdom—
(a)
F4(b)
a credit institution (as defined in Article 4.1 of the banking consolidation directive) which is authorised (within the meaning of Article 4.2) by its home state regulator,
(c)
a financial institution (as defined in Article 4.5 of the banking consolidation directive) which is a subsidiary of the kind mentioned in Article 24 and which fulfils the conditions in that Article;
(d)
an undertaking pursuing the activity of direct insurance (within the meaning of F5Article 2 of the life assurance consolidation directive or Article 1 of the first non-life insurance directive) which has received authorisation under F6Article 4 of the life assurance consolidation directive or Article 6 of the first non-life insurance directive from its home state regulator.F7; F8. . .
F9(da)
an undertaking pursuing the activity of reinsurance (within the meaning of Article 2.1(a) of the reinsurance directive) which has received authorisation under (or is deemed to be authorised in accordance with) Article 3 of the reinsurance directive from its home state regulator;
(e)
an insurance intermediary (as defined in Article 2.5 of the insurance mediation directive), or a reinsurance intermediary (as defined in Article 2.6) which is registered with its home state regulator under Article 3; F10 ...
F11(f)
a management company (as defined in paragraph 11B) which is authorised (within the meaning of Article 6 of the UCITS directive) by its home state regulator. F12; or
(g)
a person who has received authorisation under Article 18.2 of the emission allowance auctioning regulation.
F135A
In paragraph 5, “ relevant office ” means—
(a)
in relation to a firm falling within sub-paragraph (e) of that paragraph which has a registered office, its registered office;
(b)
in relation to any other firm, its head office.