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On the Bundesbank website, EU Directives are only available in German. Englisch and other language versions can be found on the EUR-Lex website.

EU Directives

Directive 2010/78/EU amending Directives 98/26/EC, 2002/87/EC, 2003/6/EC, 2003/41/EC, 2003/71/EC, 2004/39/EC, 2004/109/EC, 2005/60/EC, 2006/48/EC, 2006/49/EC and 2009/65/EC in respect of the powers of the European Supervisory Authority (European Banking Authority), the European Supervisory Authority (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority) and the European Supervisory Authority (European Securities and Markets Authority) (German only)
Directive 2010/76/EU amending Directives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC as regards capital requirements for the trading book and for re-securitisations, and the supervisory review of remuneration policies (German only)
Directive 2009/110/EC on the taking up, pursuit and prudential supervision of the business of electronic money institutions amending Directives 2005/60/EC and 2006/48/EC and repealing Directive 2000/46/EC (German only)
Directive 2009/65/EC on the coordination of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (recast UCITS Directive 85/611/EEC) (German only)
Directive 2007/64/EC on payment services in the internal market amending Directives 97/7/EC, 2002/65/EC, 2005/60/EC and 2006/48/EC and repealing Directive 97/5/EC
Directive 2006/49/EC on the capital adequacy of investment firms and credit institutions (recast)
Directive 2006/48/EC relating to the taking up and pursuit of the business of credit institutions (recast)
Directive 2002/87/EC on the supplementary supervision of credit institutions, insurance undertakings and investment
firms in a financial conglomerate and amending Council Directives 73/239/EEC, 79/267/EEC,
92/49/EEC, 92/96/EEC, 93/6/EEC and 93/22/EEC, and Directives 98/78/EC and 2000/12/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council (German only)
Directive 2001/24/EC on the reorganisation and winding up of credit institutions (German only)
Directive 86/635/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of banks and other financial institutions (German only)

National laws

Bundesbank Act (Gesetz über die Deutsche Bundesbank)
Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank (German only)
Banking Act (Gesetz über das Kreditwesen) Revised read-only version - Unofficial text
In the wording of the announcement of 9 September 1998 (Federal Law Gazette I, page 2776) as last amended by Article 2 of the Act of 25 June 2009 (Act to Implement the Prudential Supervisory Provisions of the Payment Services Directive (Gesetz zur Umsetzung der aufsichtsrechtlichen Vorschriften der Zahlungsdiensterichtlinie), also known as the Payment Services Implementation Act (Zahlungsdiensteumsetzungsgesetz)), Federal Law Gazette I, page 1522.
Deposit Guarantee and Investor Compensation Act (Einlagensicherungs- und Anlegerentschädigungsgesetz, EAEG) (in the wording applicable as of 31 December 2010) In the wording of the announcement of 16 July 1998 (Federal Law Gazette I, page 1842). Last amended by Article 12 of the Act of 9 December 2010 (Federal Law Gazette I, page 1900). (German only)
Payment Services Oversight Act (Zahlungsdiensteaufsichtsgesetz)
In the wording of the announcement of 25 June 2009 (Federal Law Gazette I, page 1506), as last amended by article 11 of the Act to Optimise the Prevention of Money Laundering (Gesetz zur Optimierung der Geldwäscheprävention) of 22 December 2011 (Federal Law Gazette I, page 2974) – unofficial text – (German only)
Investment Act (Investmentgesetz) of 15 December 2003 (Federal Law Gazette I, page 2676), as last amended by Article 1 of the Act of 22 Junel 2011 (Federal Law Gazette I, page 1126) (German only)
Investment Tax Act (Investmentsteuergesetz) of 15 December 2003 (Federal Law Gazette I, page 2676, 2724), as last amended by Article 6 of the Act of 8 December 2010 (Federal Law Gazette I, page 1768) (German only)

Supervisory guideline

Guideline on the execution and quality assurance of the ongoing supervision of credit and financial services institutions by the Deutsche Bundesbank (German only) (Last updated: 21 February 2008)

Privileged debt securities pursuant to Article 52 (4) of the Directive 2009/65/EC (recast UCITS Directive 85/611/EEC)

Preliminary list of privileged debt securities of german institutions pursuant to Article 52 (4) of the Directive 2009/65/EC (issuing institutions as of 19 July 2005) (German only) (Last updated: December 2011)
List of privileged debt securities (issuing institutions up until 18 July 2005) (German only)
Explanatory notes on the list of privileged debt securities (German only)

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