Explanation: A politically exposed person within the meaning of this Act is any person who holds or has held a high-ranking important public office at international, European or national level or who holds or has held a public office below national level of comparable political importance. Politically exposed persons include, in particular, persons who hold the following positions: (a) heads of state, heads of government, ministers, members of the European Commission, deputy ministers and secretaries of state; (b) members of parliament and members of comparable legislative bodies; (c) members of the governing bodies of political parties; (d) members of supreme courts, constitutional courts or other high courts against whose decisions there is normally no longer any right of appeal, e) members of the governing bodies of courts of audit, f) members of the governing bodies of central banks, g) ambassadors, chargés d'affaires and defence attachés, h) members of the administrative, management and supervisory bodies of state-owned companies, i) directors, deputy directors, members of the governing body or other heads with a comparable function in an intergovernmental international or European organization.