I.-For the purposes of Articles L. 613-20-1 and L. 613-21-1, information is considered essential if it may have a significant impact on the assessment of the financial soundness of a credit institution, an investment firm or a financial institution in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
The essential information covers in particular the following elements:
1° Identification of the group’s legal structure, governance structure and organisational structure, including parent undertakings, regulated entities, unregulated entities, unregulated subsidiaries and branches of significant importance;
2° Identification of the competent authorities responsible for the group’s regulated entities;
3° The procedures governing the collection of information from the group’s credit institutions or investment firms and the verification of this information;
4° Negative developments affecting credit institutions or investment firms or other entities in the group which are likely to have a serious impact on them;
5° Significant sanctions taken on the basis of Article L. 612-40, exceptional measures decided by the competent authorities, including the imposition of a specific capital requirement pursuant to Article L. 511-41-3 or, where applicable, pursuant to Article L. 533-4-4 and a limitation on the use of an advanced measurement approach for the calculation of capital requirements pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 312 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013.
II – For the purposes of Articles L. 613-20-1 and L. 613-21-1, relevant information is information requested by a competent authority of another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area in order to carry out its supervisory duties, as provided for in Article L. 612-1 and Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013, concerning a subsidiary that is important for the financial system of that State.