In addition to the general requirements for own funds as added to or amended by specific requirements laid down in terms of own funds for these types of institutions, a specification of conditions according to which competent authorities may determine that a type of undertaking recognised under applicable national law qualifies as a mutual, cooperative society, savings institution or similar institution for the purpose of own funds is necessary in order to mitigate the risk that any institution could operate under the specific status of mutual, cooperative society, savings institution or similar institution to which specific own funds re ...[+++]quirements may apply, where the institution does not possess features which are common to the Union cooperative banking sector institutions.

3. With respect to Common Equity Tier 1 capital, to qualify as a similar institution to cooperatives, mutuals and savings institutions for the purposes of paragraph 1, the institution shall be only able to issue, according to the national applicable law or company statutes, at the level of the legal entity, capital instruments referred to in Article 29 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

The types of companies affected are public limited companies, private limited companies, certain cooperatives, mutual companies, savings banks, funds, European companies and European cooperative societies.

Despite requests to that effect to the French authorities, the Commission is not in possession of more precise information on the structure of the supplementary health insurance market, such as that relating to groupings of mutual societies, mutual associations, unions of mutual societies and provident societies.

Consequently, shares and other securities equivalent to shares issued by bodies such as building societies and industrial and provident societies, the ownership of which cannot, in practice, be transferred except by the issuing body buying them back, are not covered by this definition.

takes one of the forms in the updated list in the Annex to Directive 2003/123/EC to which new legal entities have been added, e.g. certain cooperatives, mutual societies, non-capital based companies, savings banks, provident funds and associations with commercial activity.