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close links

Defined termclose links
SourceMiFID II
ReferenceArticle 4(1), point (35)
StatusPublished
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(35) ‘close links’ means a situation in which two or more natural or legal persons are linked by:

(a) participation in the form of ownership, direct or by way of control, of 20 % or more of the voting rights or capital of an undertaking;

(b) ‘control’ which means the relationship between a parent undertaking and a subsidiary, in all the cases referred to in Article 22(1) and (2) of Directive 2013/34/EU, or a similar relationship between any natural or legal person and an undertaking, any subsidiary undertaking of a subsidiary undertaking also being considered to be a subsidiary of the parent undertaking which is at the head of those undertakings;

(c) a permanent link of both or all of them to the same person by a control relationship;

MiFID II, Article 4(1), point (35).