Examples of using Elmis in English and their translations into Polish
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Financial
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Colloquial
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Medicine
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Ecclesiastic
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Ecclesiastic
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Official/political
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Programming
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Computer
Admittedly, however, ELMIs wishing to grant such credit can only do so subject to a number of specific conditions 4.
By contrast, the impact assessment accompanying the proposed directive does not address the risks that may be associated with the broader range of activities that ELMIs are entitled to undertake.
ELMIs must, therefore, be legally obliged to redeem e-money for central bank money at par value at the request of the holder of the e-money.
In the same vein, the proposed directive poses concerns from a supervisory perspective,as it lightens the supervisory regime for ELMIs while simultaneously broadening the scope of their activities.
Should ELMIs cease to be covered by the definition of credit institution, as suggested in Article 17( 1) of the proposed directive, it would have wide-ranging consequences from a central bank perspective.
The microscope cannot be damaged from the outside,because it is protected from the haphazard movements of the human body, but Elmis is subject to damage from the inside in the microworld, e.g.
Article 17( 1) of the proposed directive removes ELMIs from the above definition of credit institution and reclassifies them as« financial institutions» in accordance with Article 4( 5) of Directive 2006/48/ EC.
General observations The objective of the proposed directive is to open the market for the issuance of electronic money( hereinafter« e-money') by electronic money institutions( hereinafter« ELMIs'), which are regulated under a lighter prudential regime than the one applicable to credit institutions.
From a central bank perspective, ELMIs are part of the money-issuing sector and a level playing field should continuously be ensured with credit institutions, as defined in Directive 2006/48/ EC 2.
From the outside, this looks very strange: the explorer, wearing an enormous helmet that attaches him to a microscope, sits immobile next to the machine,while somewhere in the microworld, in the Elmis(short for electro-micro-scuba), his"third eye," exposed to all the dangers of collisions, fissures, and conflicts with other organisms, takes a journey.
In view of their legal status as credit institutions, ELMIs are subject to Eurosystem( 3) reserve requirements, as further regulated in Regulation ECB/ 2003/9 of 12 September 2003 on the application of minimum reserves 4.
Statistics ELMIs currently form part of the reporting population of monetary financial institutions( MFI) for the ECB 's monetary and financial statistics, in accordance with Regulation ECB/ 2001/13 of 22 November 2001 concerning the consolidated balance sheet of the monetary financial institutions sector 2.
Since the business of a credit institution covers both deposit taking and the granting of credit,it could be argued that ELMIs, today, do not fulfil both criteria of deposit taking and granting of credit and are only considered to be credit institutions due to the definition laid down in Directive 2006/48/ EC.
Finally, when arguing that ELMIs will continue to take deposits or other repayable funds it is decisive that funds paid to an ELMI are redeemable in accordance with Article 5 of the proposed directive, according to which the funds in question are to be paid back to the e-money holder at par value on request.
However, in view of the type of activities which ELMIs will be allowed to undertake under the proposed directive, the legal nature of ELMIs would continue to be equivalent to that of credit institutions.
In addition, the alignment of ELMIs with payment institutions is complicated by the need to differentiate between payment services based on payment accounts and e-money payment services based on centralised accounts.
More concretely, the difficulty arises not only due to the fact that ELMIs may hold funds that are in practice equivalent to deposits and other repayable funds, but also due to an ELMI 's ability to grant credit financed by money received from the public.
It is noted that even if ELMIs will no longer be defined as credit institutions, they will fall into the statistical definition of MFI under Part I, Section I, paragraph 2 of Annex 1 to Regulation ECB/ 2001/13, according to which resident financial institutions other than credit institutions are subject to statistical reporting requirements depending, inter alia, on the degree of substitutability between the instruments they issue and deposits placed with credit institutions;
First, the ECB is of the view that apart from the right of ELMIs and credit institution to issue e-money, the distinction between ELMIs and payment institutions is unclear; this makes the assessment of risks and related safeguards a challenging task from a supervisory perspective.
Article 8( 1) of the proposed directive considerably broadens the scope of activities which ELMIs will be entitled to engage in compared to Article 1( 5) of Directive 2000/46/ EC according to which the business activities of ELMIs, other than the issuing of e-money, are restricted to the provision of closely related financial and non-financial services, excluding the granting of any form of credit.
