Regulation (EU) 2022/504 of the European Central Bank of 25 March 2022 amending Regulation (EU) 2016/445 on the exercise of options and discretions available in Union law (ECB/2016/4) (ECB/2022/14)

‘3 The exposures listed in Article 400(2)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 incurred by a credit institution to the undertakings referred to therein, in so far as those undertakings are established in the Union, shall be exempted from the application of Article 395(1) of that Regulation, provided that the conditions set out in Article 400(3) of that Regulation, as further specified in Annex I to this Regulation, are fulfilled and insofar those undertakings are covered by the same supervision on a consolidated basis in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, Directive 2002/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council , or with equivalent standards in force in a third country, as further specified in Annex I to this Regulation.

4 The exposures listed in Article 400(2)(d) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 shall be exempted from the application of Article 395(1) of that Regulation, provided that the conditions set out in Article 400(3) of that Regulation, as further specified in Annex II to this Regulation, are fulfilled.

5 The exposures listed in Articles 400(2)(e) to (l) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 shall be exempted in full, or in the case of Article 400(2)(i) shall be exempted up to the maximum allowed amount, from the application of Article 395(1) of that Regulation, provided that the conditions set out in Article 400(3) of that Regulation are fulfilled.

The following indices qualify as major stock indices for the purpose of determining the scope of shares that could qualify as Level 2B assets pursuant to Article 12(1)(c) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61: (a) the indices listed in Annex I to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2016/1646 ; (b) any major stock index, not included under point (a), in a Member State or in a third country, identified as such for the purposes of this point by the competent authority of the relevant Member State or third country public authority; (c) any major stock index, not included under points (a) or (b), which comprises leading companies in the relevant jurisdiction.

Unless the ECB determines different required stable funding factors, for the off-balance-sheet exposures in the scope of Article 428p(10) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 institutions shall apply to off-balance-sheet exposures not referred to in Chapter 4 of Title IV of Part Six of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 required stable funding factors that correspond to the outflow rates that they apply to related products and services in the context of Article 23 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 in the liquidity coverage requirement.

Where assets have been segregated in accordance with Article 11(3) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council and institutions are not able to freely dispose of such assets, institutions shall consider such assets as encumbered for a period corresponding to the term of the liabilities to the institutions’ customers to whom that segregation requirement relates.

Institutions to which the ECB has granted permission to apply the simplified net stable funding requirement referred to in Chapter 5 of Title IV of Part Six of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 shall follow the approach laid down in Article 12a.

Institutions to which the ECB has granted permission to calculate the net stable funding ratio as referred to in Chapter 5 of Title IV of Part Six of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 shall follow the approach laid down in Article 12b.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the fifth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.