Decision of the European Central Bank of 29 July 2014 on measures relating to targeted longer-term refinancing operations (ECB/2014/34) (2014/541/EU)

Article 1 Definitions

For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:

(1)

‘Allotment reference month’ means the most recent month for which eligible net lending data is available for each TLTRO allotment;

(2)

‘Credit institution’ means a credit institution as defined in Appendix 2 (Glossary) of Annex I to Guideline ECB/2011/14;

(3)

‘Eligible loans’ means loans to non-financial corporations and households (including non-profit institutions serving households) resident in Member States whose currency is the euro, except loans to households for house purchases, and ‘resident’ for these purposes means the term as defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2533/98(1);

(4)

‘Eligible net lending’ means gross lending in the form of eligible loans net of repayments of outstanding amounts of eligible loans during a specific period, as further detailed in Annex II;

(5)

‘Monetary financial institution’ (MFI) means the term as defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 25/2009 of the European Central Bank (ECB/2008/32)(2);

(6)

‘MFI code’ means a unique identification code for an MFI in the list of MFIs maintained and published by the ECB for statistical purposes in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 25/2009 (ECB/2008/32);

(7)

‘Outstanding amounts of eligible loans’ means outstanding eligible loans on the balance sheet, excluding eligible loans securitised or otherwise transferred without derecognition from the balance sheet, as further detailed in Annex II;

(8)

‘Participant’ means a counterparty eligible for Eurosystem monetary policy open market operations in accordance with Annex I to Guideline ECB/2011/14, which submits bids in TLTRO tender procedures either on an individual basis or on a group basis as a lead institution and which is subject to all the rights and obligations associated with its participation in the TLTRO tender procedures;

(9)

‘Relevant NCB’ means the NCB of the euro area Member State in which a participant is established.

(1)

Council Regulation (EC) No 2533/98 of 23 November 1998 concerning the collection of statistical information by the European Central Bank (OJ L 318, 27.11.1998, p. 8).

(2)

Regulation (EC) No 25/2009 of the European Central Bank of 19 December 2008 concerning the balance sheet of the monetary financial institutions sector (ECB/2008/32) (OJ L 15, 20.1.2009, p. 14), to be replaced as of 1 January 2015 by Regulation (EU) No 1071/2013 of the European Central Bank of 24 September 2013 concerning the balance sheet of the monetary financial institutions sector (ECB/2013/33) (OJ L 297, 7.11.2013, p. 1).