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Version date: 12 May 2024 - onwards
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Article 2 Definitions

DRAFT Point added Article 90 Amendments to Directive 2014/59/EU of the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of insurance and reinsurance undertakings and amending Directives 2002/47/EC, 2004/25/EC, 2009/138/EC, (EU) 2017/1132 and Regulations (EU) No 1094/2010 and (EU) No 648/2012 (COM(2021) 582 final / 2021/0296 (COD)) (Insurance Recovery and Resolution Directive IRRD) (updated 18 June 2024 with Information Note - Proposals under the ordinary legislative procedure expected to undergo the Corrigendum Procedure in the European Parliament (part I))

1. For the purposes of this Directive the following definitions apply:

(1) "resolution" means the application of a resolution tool or a tool referred to in Article 37(9) in order to achieve one or more of the resolution objectives referred to in Article 31(2);

(2) "credit institution" means a credit institution as defined in point (1) of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, not including the entities referred to in Article 2(5) of Directive 2013/36/EU