Assessment of third‐country supervision and other supervisory techniques
Article 55
1. Member States shall ensure that, where two or more investment firms that are subsidiaries of the same parent undertaking, the head office of which is in a third country, are not subject to effective supervision at group level, the competent authority assesses whether the investment firms are subject to supervision by the third‐country supervisory authority which is equivalent to the supervision set out in this Directive and in Part One of Regulation (EU) 2019/2033. 2. Where the assessment referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article concludes that no such equivalent supervision applies, Member States shall allow for appropriate supervisory techniques which achieve the objectives of supervision in accordance with Article 7 or 8 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2033. Those supervisory techniques shall be decided by the competent authority which would be the group supervisor had the parent undertaking been established in the Union, after consulting the other competent authorities involved. Any measures taken pursuant to this paragraph shall be notified to the other competent authorities involved, to EBA and to the Commission. 3. The competent authority which would be the group supervisor had the parent undertaking been established in the Union may, in particular, require the establishment of an investment holding company or mixed financial holding company in the Union and apply Article 7 or 8 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 to that investment holding company or mixed financial holding company.