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Version status: Entered into force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 7 December 2009 - onwards
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Article 59

1. Member States shall ensure that the investment of a feeder UCITS into a given master UCITS which exceeds the limit applicable under Article 55(1) for investments into other UCITS be subject to prior approval by the competent authorities of the feeder UCITS home Member State.

2. The feeder UCITS shall be informed within 15 working days following the submission of a complete file, whether or not the competent authorities have approved the feeder UCITS' investment into the master UCITS.

3. The competent authorities of the feeder UCITS home Member State shall grant approval if the feeder UCITS, its depositary and its auditor, as well as the master UCITS, comply with all the requirements set out in this Chapter. For such purposes, the feeder UCITS shall provide to the competent authorities of its home Member State the following documents:

(a) the fund rules or instruments of incorporation of the feeder UCITS and the master UCITS;

(b) the prospectus and the key investor information referred to in Article 78 of the feeder and the master UCITS;

(c) the agreement between the feeder and the master UCITS or the internal conduct of business rules referred to in Article 60(1);