Regulation (EU) 2026/1386

means:

means the point in time at which the last condition precedent has been met in relation to an investment decision by the parties to a foreign investment transaction;

means the person or entity designated by a Member State to send and receive all communication through the cooperation mechanism, including notifications and exchanges of information related to foreign investments covered by this Regulation;

means an initial submission to the screening authority of all information or documentation required under the screening mechanism, including, where applicable, a complete request for authorisation;

means an investment of any kind, carried out either by a foreign investor itself or through a foreign investor’s subsidiary in the Union, aiming to establish or to maintain lasting and direct links between the foreign investor and a Union target, to which the foreign investor makes capital available in order to carry out an economic activity in a Member State, enabling effective participation in the management or control of that Union target;

means:

means a foreign investment carried out through the establishment of new facilities or of an undertaking for the performance of an economic activity in the Union;

means the Member State in which a foreign investment is planned to be or is completed;

means a reorganisation of a corporate group to which a Union target belongs, which does not result in a change of the beneficial owner of the Union target;

means any condition imposed by a Member State in order to resolve the likely negative effect on security or public order arising from a foreign investment;

means a notification sent through the cooperation mechanism by each of the Member States concerned with regard to a multi-country transaction;

means a foreign investment subject to screening mechanisms in two or more Member States;

means a Member State that has notified a foreign investment through the cooperation mechanism pursuant to Article 5;

means an arrangement in which the ownership or control of an entity is unclear, concealed or difficult to ascertain due to, inter alia, the use of complex legal structures, multiple layers of ownership, nominee shareholders, or other mechanisms that obscure the identity of the beneficial owner;

means a submission under a screening mechanism of a request to authorise a foreign investment subject to a prior authorisation requirement;

means a procedure through which a host Member State can investigate, assess, authorise, authorise subject to mitigating measures, prohibit or unwind foreign investments on the grounds of security or public order;

means the authority or authorities designated by a Member State to carry out screening;

means a measure adopted by a screening authority pursuant to a screening mechanism which results in the authorisation, authorisation subject to mitigating measures, prohibition or unwinding of a foreign investment;

means a legal instrument of general application and accompanying administrative requirements, implementing rules or guidelines, that set out the terms, conditions and procedures for screening;

means storing a quantity of a particular raw material for future use, including in anticipation of possible shortages.

means an undertaking established or intended to be established under the laws of a Member State;