Where the applicant enjoys legal personality under the law of a Member State, the acquisition of European legal personality shall be regarded by that Member State as a conversion of the national legal personality into a successor European legal personality.
I gcás ina dteachtann an t-iarratasóir pearsantacht dhlítheanach faoi dhlí a Bhallstáit, measfaidh an Ballstát sin gurb ionann fáil na pearsantachta dlítheanaí Eorpaí agus an phearsantacht dhlítheanach náisiúnta a thiontú go pearsantacht dhlítheanach Eorpach chomharbach.