Regulation (EU) No 345/2013 is amended as follows:
(1) in Article 3, the following point is added:
‘(o) "pre-marketing" means provision of information or communication, direct or indirect, on investment strategies or investment ideas by a manager of a qualifying venture capital fund, or on its behalf, to potential investors domiciled or with a registered office in the Union in order to test their interest in a qualifying venture capital fund which is not yet established, or in a qualifying venture capital fund which is established, but not yet notified for marketing in accordance with Article 15, in that Member State where the potential investors are domiciled or have their registered office, and which in each case does not amount to an offer or placement to the potential investor to invest in the units or shares of that qualifying venture capital fund.’;
(2) the following Article is inserted:
1. A manager of a qualifying venture capital fund may engage in pre-marketi
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