For the purposes of this Decision:
‘less significant supervised entity’ means a supervised entity (a) established in a non-euro area Member State which is a participating Member State in accordance with Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013, and (b) which does not have the status of a significant supervised entity pursuant to a decision of the ECB based on Article 6(4) or Article 6(5)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013;
‘national competent authority’ means any national competent authority as defined in Article 2(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013;
‘national designated authority’ means a national designated authority as defined in Article 2(7) of Regulation (EU) No 1024/013;
‘non-participating Member State’ means any Member State which is not a participating Member State as defined in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013;
‘requesting Member State’ means a non-participating Member State that has notified the ECB in accordance with Article 2 of this Decision of its request to enter into a close cooperation pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013;
‘significant supervised entity’ means a supervised entity (a) established in a non-euro area Member State which is a participating Member State, and (b) which has the status of a significant supervised entity pursuant to a decision of the ECB based on Article 6(4) or Article 6(5)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013;
‘supervised entity’ means a credit institution, financial holding company, or mixed-financial holding company as defined in Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 and established in the requesting Member State, as well as a branch established in a requesting Member State by a credit institution which is established in a non-participating Member State.