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AI Summary of Article 12

The outlined provisions obligate Member States to establish prudential regulations for management companies overseeing UCITS, ensuring they adhere to robust administrative and accounting systems. These companies must implement stringent internal controls for electronic data processing, in compliance with applicable digital operational resilience regulations, and safeguard against conflicts of interest.

Furthermore, management companies authorised for discretionary portfolio management are restricted from investing clients' portfolios in their own managed collective investment undertakings without prior client approval. The Commission will issue delegated acts and ESMA may develop technical standards to standardise compliance across jurisdictions.

Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 16 January 2023 - onwards
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Article 12

1. Each Member State shall draw up prudential rules which management companies authorised in that Member State, with regard to the activity of management of UCITS authorised according to this Directive, shall observe at all times.

In particular, the competent authorities of the management company's home Member State, having regard also to the nature of the UCITS managed by a management company, shall require that each such company: