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1.Member States shall require branches of credit institutions and financial institutions having their head offices in other Member States to publish, in accordance with Article 44 of Directive 86/635/EEC, the credit institution or financial institution documents referred to therein (annual accounts, consolidated accounts, annual report, consolidated annual report, opinions of the person responsible for auditing the annual accounts and consolidated accounts).
2.Such documents must be drawn up and audited in the manner required by the law of the Member State in which the credit institution or financial institution has its head office in accordance with Directive 86/635/EEC.
3.Branches may not be required to publish annual accounts relating to their own activities.
4.Member States may, pending further coordination, require branches to publish the following additional information:
the income and costs of the branch deriving from items 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 15 of Article 27 or from items A.4, A.9, B.1 to B.4 and B.7 of Article 28 of Directive 86/635/EEC,
the average number of staff employed by the branch,
the total claims and liabilities attributable to the branch, broken down into those in respect of credit institutions and those in respect of customers, together with the overall amount of such claims and liabilities expressed in the currency of the Member State in which the branch is established,
the total assets and the amounts corresponding to items 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the assets, 1, 2 and 3 of the liabilities and 1 and 2 of the off-balance sheet items defined in Article 4 and parallel Articles of Directive 86/635/EEC, and, in the case of items 2,-5 and 6 of the assets, a breakdown of securities according to whether they have or have not been regarded as financial fixed assets pursuant to Article 35 of Directive 86/635/EEC.
Where such information is required, its accuracy and its accordance with the annual accounts must be checked by one or more persons authorized to audit accounts under the law of the Member State in which the branch is established.
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