In applying the regime the Commission and Member States should prioritise the areas covered by the G-20 commitments and agreements with the Union's largest trading partners and should have regard to the central role that the Union plays in worldwide financial markets and ensure that the application of third-country requirements does not prevent Union investors and issuers from investing in or obtaining funding from third countries or third-country investors and issuers from investing, raising capital or obtaining other financial services in Union markets unless that is necessary for objective and ...[+++] evidence-based prudential reasons.

promoting an ambitious agenda for the EU’s offensive interests, in particular as regards business services, ICT services, financial and legal services, e-commerce, maritime and air transport services, environmental services, tourism and construction; defending the EU’s interests in third country markets while including in the TISA the GATS’ prudential carve-out allowing participating countries to undertake domestic regulation of financial markets and products for prudential purposes; calling for the GATS’ prudential carve-out for financial services to be included in the TISA so as to allow the parties to the agreement to take measures ...[+++]for prudential reasons, notwithstanding any other provisions of the TISA;

In applying the regime the Commission and Member States should prioritise the areas covered by the G-20 commitments and agreements with the Union's largest trading partners and should have regard to the central role that the Union plays in worldwide financial markets and ensure that the application of third-country requirements does not prevent Union investors and issuers from investing in or obtaining funding from third countries or third-country investors and issuers from investing, raising capital or obtaining other financial services in Union markets unless this is necessary for objective and ...[+++] evidence-based prudential reasons.

61. Emphasises that home-host supervisory cooperation is the most significant building- block in the set-up of the single financial market; notes in particular that, in the field of the supervisory approval process for mergers and acquisitions, there is much to do to facilitate the creation of efficiently functioning financial conglomerates with wider economies of scale; maintains that the banking market landscape of the country where the acquired financial entity is domiciled must be taken into due consideration;

60. Emphasises that home-host supervisory cooperation is the most significant building- block in the set-up of the single financial market; notes in particular that in the field of the supervisory approval process for mergers and acquisitions there is much to do to facilitate the creation of efficiently functioning financial conglomerates with wider economies of scale; maintains that the banking market landscape of the country where the acquired financial entity is domiciled must be taken into due consideration;

The aim of this procedure is not to close the Community's financial markets but rather, as the Community intends to keep its financial markets open to the rest of the world, to improve the liberalisation of the global financial markets in other third countries.