This Regulation specifies the joint decision process referred to in point (a) of Article 20(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 with regard to the applications for the permissions referred to in Article 143(1), Article 151(4) and (9), Article 283, Article 312(2), and Article 363 of that Regulation with a view to facilitating joint decisions.

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

1. (1)

   ‘relevant competent authority’ means a competent authority, other than the consolidating supervisor, which is responsible for the supervision of subsidiaries, which participate in the submission of the joint application, of an EU parent institution or an EU parent financial holding company or an EU parent mixed financial holding company in a Member State and which is required to reach a joint decision in accordance with Article 20(2) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 on the application referred to in point (a) of Article 20(1) of that Regulation;

2. (2)

   ‘applicant’ means an EU parent institution and its subsidiaries or the subsidiaries of an EU parent financial holding company or of an EU parent mixed financial holding company, which submit an application;

3. (3)

   ‘assessment report’ means a report containing the assessment of an application in accordance with Article 6.