Decision (EU) 2019/2158 of the European Central BankShow full title

Article 1 Subject matter and scope

This Decision lays down the methodology and the procedures for the determination and collection of data regarding the fee factors used for the calculation of the annual supervisory fees to be levied in respect of supervised entities and supervised groups under Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41) and the submission of the fee factors by the fee debtors referred to in Article 10(3)(bd) of that Regulation, as well as procedures for the submission of such data by NCAs to the ECB.

This Decision applies to fee debtors and NCAs.

Article 2 Definitions

For the purposes of this Decision, the definitions contained in Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41) shall apply, unless otherwise provided for, together with the following definitions:

1.

‘working day’ means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday in the Member State where the relevant NCA is established;

2.

‘management body’ means a management body as defined in point 7 of Article 3(1) of Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council(1).

Article 3 Methodology for the determination of the fee factors

1. For supervised entities and supervised groups that are subject to mandatory reporting for prudential purposes and supervised groups that did not notify the ECB in accordance with Article 4 of their decision to exclude assets and/or the risk exposure amount of subsidiaries established in non-participating Member States and third countries, the ECB shall determine the respective fee factors in accordance with the following.

(a) The total risk exposure amount for the relevant reference date specified in Article 10(3)(ba) or (bc) of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41) shall be determined by reference to the common reporting (COREP) ‘own funds requirements’ template set out in Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 (hereinafter the ‘own funds requirements template’) as submitted by the NCAs to the ECB pursuant to Decision ECB/2014/29. For a fee-paying branch and two or more fee paying branches that are deemed to be one branch in accordance with Article 3(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41), the total risk exposure amount shall be zero.

(b) The total assets for the relevant reference date specified in Article 10(3)(ba), (bb) or (bc) of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41) shall be determined by reference to the financial reporting (FINREP) ‘balance sheet statement: assets’ templates set out in Annexes III and IV to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014; and the ‘balance sheet statement: assets’ templates set out in Annexes I, II, IV and V and supervisory financial reporting data points set out in Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2015/534 (ECB/2015/13) as submitted by the NCAs to the ECB pursuant to Decision ECB/2014/29 and Regulation (EU) 2015/534 (ECB/2015/13). In the case of a fee-paying branch, the manager of that branch or, if the manager is unavailable, the management body of the credit institution establishing the fee-paying branch shall certify the fee-paying branch’s total assets by means of a management letter submitted to the relevant NCA.

2. For supervised groups that are subject to mandatory reporting for prudential purposes and notify the ECB in accordance with Article 4 of their decision to exclude assets and/or the risk exposure amount of subsidiaries established in non-participating Member States and third countries, the ECB shall determine the respective fee factors on the basis of the data calculated by those supervised groups in accordance with the following points (a) and (b) and submitted by them to the relevant NCA pursuant to Article 5.

(a) The total risk exposure for the relevant reference date specified in Article 10(3)(ba) or (bc) of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41) shall be determined by reference to the own funds requirements template, from which the following shall be deducted:

(i)

the contribution to the group’s total risk exposure of those subsidiaries established in non-participating Member States and third countries as reported in the COREP ‘group solvency: information on affiliates’ template set out in Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 (hereinafter the ‘group solvency: information on affiliates template’); and

(ii)

the contribution to the group’s total risk exposure of those subsidiaries established in non-participating Member States and third countries not included in the group solvency: information on affiliates template and as reported in accordance with Annex I to this Decision.

(b) The total assets for the relevant reference date specified in Article 10(3)(ba), (bb) or (bc) of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41) shall be determined by aggregating the total assets disclosed in the statutory financial statements of all the supervised entities established in participating Member States within the supervised group if available, or otherwise by aggregating the total assets stated in the relevant reporting package(s) used by the supervised entities or group of fee-paying credit institutions for preparing consolidated accounts at group level. To avoid double counting, the fee debtor has the option of eliminating intragroup positions among all supervised entities that are established in participating Member States. Any goodwill included in the consolidated financial statements of the parent undertaking of a supervised group shall be included in the aggregation; the exclusion of goodwill allocated to subsidiaries established in non-participating Member States and third countries is optional. Where a fee debtor uses statutory financial statements, an auditor shall certify that the total assets correspond to the total assets disclosed in the audited statutory financial statements of the single supervised entities. Where a fee debtor uses reporting packages, an auditor shall certify the total assets used for the calculation of the annual supervisory fees by carrying out appropriate verification of the reporting packages used. In all cases, the auditor shall confirm that the aggregation process does not deviate from the procedure laid down in this Decision and that the calculation performed by the fee debtor is coherent with the accounting method used to consolidate the accounts of the group of fee-paying entities.

3. For supervised entities and supervised groups which are not subject to mandatory reporting for prudential purposes, the total assets and total risk exposure, as defined pursuant to Article 2, points 12 and 13 of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41), for the relevant reference date specified in Article 10(3)(ba), 10(3)(bb) or 10(3)(bc) of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41) shall be determined by them and submitted to the relevant NCA pursuant to Article 5. In the case of a fee-paying branch, the manager of that branch or, if the manager is unavailable, the management body of the credit institution establishing the fee-paying branch shall certify the fee-paying branch’s total assets by means of a management letter submitted to the relevant NCA.

Article 4 Notification of deduction of assets and/or the risk exposure amount of subsidiaries established in non-participating Member States and third countries

Fee debtors that intend to exclude assets and/or the risk exposure amount of subsidiaries established in non-participating Member States and third countries in accordance with Article 10(3)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41) shall notify the ECB of their decision at the latest by 30 September of the fee period for which the fee is calculated. The notification shall indicate whether the deduction of the contribution of subsidiaries established in non-participating Member States and third countries shall apply to the total risk exposure fee factor, the total assets fee factor or both. If the ECB has received no such notification by 30 September of the fee period for which the fee is calculated, the total risk exposure and the total assets shall be determined in accordance with Article 3(1). If more than one notification reaches the ECB in time, the latest notification received by the ECB by 30 September of the fee period for which the fee is calculated shall prevail.

Article 5 Templates for the reporting of the fee factors to NCAs by the fee debtors

1. Fee debtors whose fee factors are determined in accordance with Article 3(2) or (3) shall submit the fee factors every year to the relevant NCA by the remittance dates specified in Article 6. The fee factors shall be submitted using the templates in Annexes I and II. In the case of a supervised group with subsidiaries established in non-participating Member States and third countries, the fee debtor shall provide an explanation of the method used to comply with Article 3(2) or (3) in the comments column allocated for this purpose in the relevant Annex.

2. Fee debtors shall submit the auditor’s statement or management letter in accordance with Article 3(2) and (3) to the relevant NCA by the remittance dates specified in Article 6.

Article 6 Remittance dates

1. The fee debtors whose fee factors are determined in accordance with Article 3(2) and (3) shall provide the fee factors to the relevant NCA by close of business on the remittance date for quarterly reporting for the third quarter specified in Article 3(1)(b) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 of the fee period for which the fee is calculated or on the next working day if the remittance date is not a working day.

2. NCAs shall submit to the ECB the fee factors referred to in paragraph 1 at the latest by close of business on the 10th working day following the remittance date specified in paragraph 1. Thereafter, the ECB shall verify the data received within fifteen working days of receipt. If so requested by the ECB, NCAs shall explain or clarify the data.

3. The ECB shall grant each fee debtor access to its fee factors at the latest by 15 January of the year following the fee period. The fee debtors shall be given a period of fifteen working days in which to comment on the fee factors and submit revised data for consideration, in the event that they consider the fee factors to be incorrect. This period shall start on the day on which the fee debtors had the possibility to access the fee factors. Thereafter, the fee factors will be applied for the calculation of the annual supervisory fees. Any changes to the data received after that period will not be taken into consideration and accordingly will not result in a change to the fee factors.

Article 7 Data quality checks

NCAs shall monitor and ensure the quality and reliability of the fee factors collected from the fee debtors under Article 3(2) and (3) before submitting them to the ECB. NCAs shall apply quality control checks to assess whether the methodology set out in Article 3 has been followed. The ECB shall not correct or modify data regarding the fee factors provided by the fee debtors. Any corrections or modifications to the data shall be undertaken by the fee debtors and submitted by them to the NCAs. NCAs shall submit to the ECB any corrected or modified data received by them. When submitting data regarding the fee factors, NCAs shall: (a) provide information on any significant developments implied by such data; and (b) communicate to the ECB the reasons for any significant corrections or modifications to it. NCAs shall ensure that the ECB obtains the necessary corrections or modifications to the data.

Article 8 Determination of fee factors by the ECB in the event of non-availability of the fee factors or non submission of corrections or modifications

In the event that a fee factor is not available to the ECB or the fee debtor has not submitted timely revised data or modifications or corrections of the data regarding the fee factors in accordance with Articles 6(3) or 7, the ECB shall use information available to it to determine the missing fee factor.

Article 9 Simplified amendment procedure

Taking the views of the Statistics Committee into account, the ECB’s Executive Board shall be entitled to make technical amendments to the Annexes to this Decision, provided that such amendments neither change the underlying conceptual framework nor affect the reporting burden on the fee debtors. The Executive Board shall inform the Governing Council of any such amendment without undue delay.

Article 10 Repeal

1. Decision (EU) 2015/530 (ECB/2015/7) is hereby repealed.

2. References to the repealed Decision shall be construed as references to this Decision and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex III.

Article 11 Entry into force

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

Done at Frankfurt am Main, 5 December 2019.

The President of the ECB

Christine Lagarde