branch

Uses as of 20/11/2003

Definitions over time (1)

19/12/2002 – 01/05/2004 applies on 20/11/2003 Article 1, Directive 2002/83/EC Scope: Whole act

(b) ‘branch’ shall mean an agency or branch of an assurance undertaking; Any permanent presence of an undertaking in the territory of a Member State shall be treated in the same way as an agency or branch, even if that presence does not take the form of a branch or agency, but consists merely of an office managed by the undertaking's own staff or by a person who is independent but has permanent authority to act for the undertaking as an agency would;

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