The provisions of Articles 19 and 20 shall also apply in relation to agencies and branches of undertakings to which this Title applies.
As regards the application of Article 20, where an undertaking qualifies for the supervisoryadvantages provided for in Article 26 (1), the authority ofresponsible for verifying the oldest establishment or the one that carries out in its place the verification of the overall solvency of branchesagencies or agenciesbranches established within the Community with respect to their entire business shall be assimilatedtreated toin the same way as the authority of the State in the territory of which the head office of a Community undertaking is situated.