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Directive 2001/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the… Article 87

Article 87

1. For the purposes of this Chapter, "controlled undertaking" shall mean any undertaking in which a natural person or legal entity: (a) has a majority of the shareholders' or members' voting rights; or (b) has the right to appoint or remove a majority of the members of the administrative, management or supervisory body and is at the same time a shareholder in, or member of, the undertaking in question; or (c) is a shareholder or member and alone controls a majority of the shareholders' or members' voting rights pursuant to an agreement entered into with other shareholders or members of the undertaking. 2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, a parent undertaking's rights as regards voting, appointment and removal shall include the rights of any other controlled undertaking and those of any person or entity acting in his own name but on behalf of the parent undertaking or of any other controlled undertaking.

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