This category may include loans for consumption purposes to sole proprietorships/partnerships without legal status (see Part 3 of Annex II) if these are not reported under the category ‘credit for consumption’.

For the purpose of MFI interest rate statistics, new business loans to households for consumption, i.e. indicators 13 to 15, 30 and 88 in Appendix 2, are defined as loans, other than credit card debt or revolving loans and overdrafts, granted for the purpose of personal use in the consumption of goods and services, while indicators 55 to 57 refer to secured loans as defined in paragraph 64.

| (3)All Member States:the establishment of a specialised management company is required to perform the activities of management of unit trusts and investment companies,only firms having their registered office in the Community can act as depositories of the assets of investment funds.BG: for banking services as listed below:acceptance of deposits and other repayable funds from the public,lending, such as consumer credit, mortgage credit, factoring and financing of commercial transactions,payment and money transmission services,guarantees, excluding guarantees of the State Treasury,financial leasing:foreign banks wishing to establish the ...[+++]mselves in the Republic of Bulgaria must be duly authorised under their national law and must not be prohibited from performing banking activities in their country of origin and in the countries where they operate.

| (4)Unbound, except as indicated in the horizontal section under (i) and (ii) and subject to the following specific limitations:BG: For Banking services as listed below:acceptance of deposits and other repayable funds from the public,lending, such as consumer credit, mortgage credit, factoring and financing of commercial transactionspayment and money transmission services,guarantees, excluding guarantees of the State Treasury,financial leasing:unbound, except as in (3) above.FR: Sociétés d'investissement à capital fixe: condition ...[+++] of nationality for the president of the Board of Directors, the Directors-General and no less than two thirds of the administrators, and also, when the securities firm has a Supervisory Board or Council, for the members of such board or its Director-General, and no less than two thirds of the members of the supervisory Council.EL: credit institutions should name at least two persons who are responsible for the operations of the institution.

The European Commission has already taken steps in order to improve the quality of pre-contractual information available to consumers, for instance in the Standard European Consumer Credit Information Sheet, annexed to the new Consumer Credit Directive,[23] and in the Key Investor Information document, being tested for the revision of the UCITS Directive.[24] In the area of mortgages, the examination of the European Standard Information Sheet aims to improve the presentation of pre-contractual information to consumers.[25] The Commiss ...[+++]ion Communication on Packaged Retail Investment Products proposes measures to deliver clear, comparable pre-contractual information to investors of these products.[26] The impact of these measures is to standardise the presentation of pre-contractual information in a way which makes it easier for the consumer to compare the offers of different providers.

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