Directive 2000/12/EC is hereby amended as follows:
1. Article 2(4) shall be replaced by the following:
'4. The Commission, pursuant to the procedure referred to in Article 60(2), shall decide on amendments to the list in paragraph 3.';
2. in Article 2(5), the third subparagraph shall be replaced by the following:
'In the case of credit institutions other than those which are set up in areas newly reclaimed from the sea or which have resulted from scission or mergers of existing institutions dependent on or answerable to the central body, the Commission, pursuant to the procedure referred to in Article 60(2), may lay down additional rules for the application of the second subparagraph including the repeal of exemptions provided for in the first subparagraph, where it is of the opinion that the affiliation of new institutions benefiting from the arrangements laid down in the second subparagraph might have an adverse effect on competition.';