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Legal framework

The business activities of the Financial Stability Company are governed and defined by a number of acts adopted for the purposes of securing financial stability in Denmark.

Download the relevant acts here:

Act on Financial Stability

Act no. 721 of 25 June 2010 on change of the Financial Business Act, Act of a Guarantee Fund for Depositors and Investors, and Assessment of Income Tax to the State (in Danish only)

Act no. 1273 of 16 December 2009 on change of the Annual Accounts Act, the Act of Financial Stability and other acts (in Danish only)

Consolidated Act No. 875 of 15 September 2009 on Financial Stability (only in Danish)

Translation of an unauthorised consolidated version of the Act on Financial Stability with all subsequent changes hereto including the changes which will enter into force on 1st October 2010

Act No. 338 of 1 May 2009 to amend the Act on the Guarantee Fund for Depositors and Investors, Act on Financial Stability, and Act on State-Funded Capital Injections into Credit Institutions (only in Danish)

Act No. 516 of 12 June 2009 to amend the Financial Statements Act, the Financial Business Act and various other Acts (only in Danish)

Executive Orders
Ececutive Order No. 1135 of 29 September 2010 on readiness for Winding-up (in Danish only)

Executive Order No. 1139 of 28 September 2010 on Winding-Up of Subsidiaries of the Financial Stability Company and other acts (in Danish only)

Executive Order No. 682 of 18 June 2010 on change of Executive Order of Application for Individual State Guarantee as per Act of Financial Stability (In Danish only)

Executive Order No. 13 of 13 January 2009 on the Risks that may be assumed by Banks comprised by the Guarantee Scheme (only in Danish)

Executive Order No. 231 of 26 March 2009 on Application for Individual Government Guarantee under the Act on Financial Stability (only in Danish)

Executive Order No. 792 of 17 August 2009 to amend the Executive Order on Application for Individual Government Guarantee under the Act on Financial Stability (only in Danish)

Bills 
Bill L 11 2009 to the Act of the change of the Financial Business Act and other Acts (in Danish only)

Bill L 207 2009 Bill to the Act of change of the Act of Financial Stability, the Financial Business Act, the Act of Guarantee Fund for Depositors and Investors and Act of Assessment of Income Taxes to the State (in Danish only)

Bill L 171 2008 09 to the Act of change of the Annual Accounts Act, The Financial Business Act and other Acts (in Danish only)

Bill on Financial Stability, L 33 2008-09 (only in Danish)

Bill to amend Act on Financial Stability, L 103 2008-09 (only in Danish)

Bill to amend the Act on the Guarantee Fund for Depositors and Investors, Act on Financial Stability, and Act on Governmental Capital Injections into Credit Institutions, L 176 2008-09 (only in Danish)

Other Acts
Consolidated Act No. 1125 of 23 September 2010, The Financial Business Act
Guidelines
Guidelines for State-Owned Public Companies issued by the Danish Commerce and Companies Agency, October 2005. (only in Danish)