Article 43a
Facilities available to retail investors
1.
Without prejudice to Article 26 of Regulation (EU) 2015/760, Member States shall ensure that an AIFM makes available, in each Member State where it intends to market units or shares of an AIF to retail investors, facilities to perform the following tasks:
(a)
(b)
provide investors with information on how orders referred to in point (a) can be made and how repurchase and redemption proceeds are paid;
(c)
(d)
make the information and documents required pursuant to Articles 22 and 23 available to investors for the purposes of inspection and obtaining copies thereof;
(e)
provide investors with information relevant to the tasks that the facilities perform in a durable medium as defined in point (m) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2009/65/EC; and
(f)
act as a contact point for communicating with the competent authorities.
2.
Member States shall not require an AIFM to have a physical presence in the host Member State or to appoint a third party for the purposes of paragraph 1.
3.
The AIFM shall ensure that the facilities to perform the tasks referred to in paragraph 1, including electronically, are provided:
(a)
in the official language or one of the official languages of the Member State where the AIF is marketed or in a language approved by the competent authorities of that Member State;
(b)
by the AIFM itself, by a third party which is subject to regulation and supervision governing the tasks to be performed, or by both.
For the purposes of point (b), where the tasks are to be performed by a third party, the appointment of that third party shall be evidenced by a written contract, which specifies which of the tasks referred to in paragraph 1 are not to be performed by the AIFM and that the third party will receive all the relevant information and documents from the AIFM.