Directive 92/49/EEC is amended as follows:
1. the following paragraph shall be inserted in Article 15:
'1a. If the acquirer of the holdings referred to in paragraph 1 is an insurance undertaking, a credit institution or an investment firm authorised in another Member State, or the parent undertaking of such an entity, or a natural or legal person controlling such an entity, and if, as a result of that acquisition, the undertaking in which the acquirer proposes to hold a holding would become a subsidiary or subject to the control of the acquirer, the assessment of the acquisition must be subject to the prior consultation referred to in Article 12a of Directive 73/239/EEC.'
2. Article 16(5c) shall be replaced by the following:
'5c. This Article shall not prevent a competent authority from transmitting
- to central banks and other bodies with a similar function in their capacity as monetary authorities,
- where appropriate, to other public authorities responsible for overseeing payme