establishment conditions
(in relation to the establishment of a branch in the United Kingdom) the conditions specified in paragraph 13 of Schedule 3 to the Act (EEA Passport Rights), which are that:
- (a) if the firm falls within paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (f) in the definition of "EEA firm":16
- (i)...
- (b) if the firm falls within paragraph (e) in the definition of "EEA firm":16
- (i) the EEA firm has given its Home State regulator notice of its intention to establish a branch in the United Kingdom;16
- (ii) the FSA has received notice ("a regulator's notice") from the firm's Home State regulator that the firm intends to establish a branch in the United Kingdom;16
- (iii) the EEA firm's Home State regulator has informed it that the regulator's notice has been sent to the FSA ; and16
- (iv) one month has elapsed beginning with the date on which the EEA firm's Home State regulator informed the firm that it had sent the regulator's notice to the FSA .16
- (c) the EEA firm has been informed of the applicable provisions or two months have elapsed beginning with the date when the FSA received the consent notice.4