Definitions
Article 1
For the purposes of this Regulation: 1. ‘security-by-security’ data collection means the collection of data broken down into individual securities; 2. ‘position’ means the stock amount of securities, the types of which are listed in paragraph 15, owned or held in custody by an actual reporting agent at the end of a reference period, as further defined in Part 4 of Annex II; 3. ‘parent credit institution’, ‘parent financial holding company’, ‘subsidiary’ and ‘branch’ have the same meaning as defined in Article 4 of Directive 2006/48/EC; 4. ‘banking group’ means (a) a parent credit institution and all its financial subsidiaries and branches, other than insurance undertakings which have received official authorisation in accordance with Article 6 of Directive 73/239/EEC ( 9 ) or Article 4 of Directive 2002/83/EC ( 10 ) ; or (b) a parent financial holding company and all its financial subsidiaries and branches, other than insurance undertakings which have received official authorisation in accordance with Article 6 of Directive 73/239/EEC or Article 4 of Directive 2002/83/EC, provided that in both cases the parent is head of the banking group. An entity without any subsidiary constitutes a group on its own, provided that the entity is not a subsidiary itself; 5. ‘resident’ has the same meaning as defined in Article 1(4) of Regulation (EC) No 2533/98; 6. ‘monetary financial institution’ (MFI), ‘credit institution’ (CI) and ‘money market fund’ (MMF) have the same meaning as defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 25/2009 (ECB/2008/32). The MFI sector comprises CIs and MMFs; 7. ‘investment fund’ (IF) has the same meaning as defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 958/2007 (ECB/2007/8); 8. ‘financial vehicle corporation’ (FVC) has the same meaning as defined in Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 24/2009 (ECB/2008/30); 9. ‘custodian’ means an entity belonging to the ‘financial corporations sector’ (S.12 ( 11 ) ) and undertaking the safekeeping and administration of financial instruments for the account of clients, including custodianship and related services such as cash/collateral management as specified in Section B, point (1) of Annex I to Directive 2004/39/EC; 10. ‘head of a banking group’ means the parent company of a banking group, provided it is either an EU parent credit institution or an EU parent financial holding company as defined in Article 4 of Directive 2006/48/EC and as implemented in the Union Member States, except that ‘EU’ shall be replaced by ‘euro area’ and ‘Member State’ shall be replaced by ‘euro area Member State’; 11. ‘head of a reporting group’ means the head of a banking group identified by the Governing Council as a reporting group pursuant to Article 2(4); 12. ‘investor’ means any entity or person owning financial instruments; 13. ‘securities held in custody’ means securities which are held and administered by custodians on behalf of investors; 14. ‘relevant NCB’ means the NCB of the euro area Member State in which the reporting agent is resident; 15. ‘securities’ means the following types of securities: (a) ‘debt securities’ (F.3); (b) ‘listed shares’ (F.511); (c) ‘investment fund shares or units’ (F.52); 16. ‘holdings of securities’ means economic ownership of securities, the types of which are listed in paragraph 15; 17. ‘ISIN code’ means the International Securities Identification Number assigned to securities, composed of 12 alphanumeric characters, which uniquely identifies a securities issue (as defined by ISO 6166).