Each management company’s host Member State shall ensure that where a management company authorised in another Member State pursues business within its territory through a branch the competent authorities of the management company’s home Member State may, after informing the competent authorities of the management company’s host Member State, themselves or through the intermediary they instruct for the purpose, carry out on-the-spot verification of the information referred to in Article 109.

Paragraph 1 shall not affect the right of the competent authorities of the management company’s host Member State, in discharging their responsibilities under this Directive, to carry out on-the-spot verifications of branches established within the territory of that Member State.