PIE DEFINITION

Under Law No 162/2017, public-interest entities means: a) companies whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market; b) credit institutions; c) insurance, insurance-reinsurance and reinsurance undertakings; d) non-bank financial institutions, as defined by law, entered in the General Register; payment institutions and electronic money institutions, as defined by law, that grant credit related to payment services and whose activity is limited to providing payment services or issuing electronic money and providing payment services; privately managed pension funds, voluntary pension funds and their managers; investment firms, investment management companies, collective investment undertakings, central securities depositories, clearing houses, central counterparties and market/system operators authorised/approved by the Financial Supervisory Authority; national companies; wholly or majority state-owned companies; autonomous public enterprises.