1.An investment company or a management company acting in connection with all of the unit trusts which it manages and which fall within the scope of this Directive may not acquire any shares carrying voting rights which would enable it to exercise significant influence over the management of an issuing body.
Pending further coordination, the Member States shall take account of existing rules defining the principle stated in the first subparagraph under other Member States' legislation.
2.Moreover, an investment company or unit trust may acquire no more than:
10 % of the non-voting shares of any single issuing body;
10 % of the debt securities of any single issuing body;
25 % of the units of any single UCITS and/or other collective investment undertaking within the meaning of the first and second indent of Article 1(2);
10 % of the money market instruments of any single issuing body.
The limits laid down in the second, third and fourth indents may be disregarded at the time of acquisition if at that time the gross amount of the debt securities or of the money market instruments, or the net amount of the securities in issue, cannot be calculated.
3.A Member State may waive application of paragraphs 1 and 2 as regards:
transferable securities and money market instruments issued or guaranteed by a Member State or its local authorities;
transferable securities and money market instruments issued or guaranteed by a non-member State;
transferable securities and money market instruments issued by public international bodies of which one or more Member States are members;
shares held by a UCITS in the capital of a company incorporated in a non-member State investing its assets mainly in the securities of issuing bodies having their registered offices in that State, where under the legislation of that State such a holding represents the only way in which the UCITS can invest in the securities of issuing bodies of that State. This derogation, however, shall apply only if in its investment policy the company from the non-member State complies with the limits laid down in Articles 22, 24 and 25 (1) and (2). Where the limits set in Articles 22 and 24 are exceeded. Article 26 shall apply mutatis mutandis;
shares held by an investment company or investment companies in the capital of subsidiary companies carrying on only the business of management, advice or marketing in the country where the subsidiary is located, in regard to the repurchase of units at unit-holders' request exclusively on its or their behalf.