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A physical person performing currently or who has performed during the last year the referred prominent public functions:

• a head of state, head of government, minister, deputy minister, or member of national legislature;
• a justice of a supreme, constitutional or another court the judgments of which can be appealed to only in exceptional circumstances;
• a member of the supervisory board of a state audit institution or central bank;
• an ambassador, chargé d'affaires, or active duty officer with a senior officer military rank;
• a member of a directing, supervisory or administrative body of a state owned company.

A politically exposed person is also a person working currently or who has worked during the last year in a position equal to a position stipulated above in an European Union or in another international organisation.

A politically exposed person is also a family member of a person performing prominent public functions (see point 1), this means:

• his or her spouse, parent, children and childrens` spouses or partners within the meaning of clause;
• a partner equal to a spouse under the law of the person’s country of residence or a person who as of the date of entry into the transaction had shared the household with the person for no less than a year;

A politically exposed person is also the close associate of a person performing prominent public functions (see point 1):

• a natural person who has a close business relationship with a person performing prominent public functions or with whom a person performing prominent public functions is the joint beneficial owner of a legal person or contractual legal arrangement;
• a person who as a beneficial owner has full ownership of a legal person or contractual legal arrangement, which has in fact been founded for the benefit of the person performing