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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/79

of 18 December 2014

amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 laying down implementing technical standards with regard to supervisory reporting of institutions according to Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards asset encumbrance, single data point model and validation rules

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012(1), and in particular the first and fourth subparagraph of Article 99(5)thereof,

Whereas:

(1) The reporting of consistent, accurate and comparable information on asset encumbrance pursuant to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014(2) is an an essential element to obtain insight in the funding position of institutions.

(2) Reporting on asset encumbrance should be based on existing reporting concepts from prudential and accounting reporting on balance sheet items to the extent possible in order to minimise the implementation and reporting burden for institutions.

(3) In accordance with the principle of proportionality, smaller institutions which do not have material levels of asset encumbrance should not be subject to the detailed reporting requirements applied to larger institutions.

(4) The reporting requirements should measure all forms of asset encumbrance including contingent encumbrance, since this is of vital importance as a material risk to the liquidity and solvency profiles of institutions, especially for institutions with material levels of asset encumbrance.

(5) Institutions issuing covered bonds as referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 52(4) of Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(3) should report information concerning encumbrance of those assets.

(6) In order to ensure that supervisory reporting on own funds and own funds requirements, financial information, losses stemming from lending collateralised by immovable property, large exposures, the leverage ratio, liquidity and asset encumbrance is carried out uniformly, and to ensure common supervisory data of high quality and precision, the data items set out in the mandatory reporting tables provided in Annexes I, III, IV, VI, VIII, X, XII and XVI to Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 680/2014 should be transformed into a single data point model.

(7) The single data point model should consist of a structured representation of the data items, and identify all relevant business concepts for the purpose of uniform supervisory reporting and should contain all of the relevant technical specifications necessary for further developing uniform IT reporting solutions.

(8) In order to safeguard the quality, consistency and accuracy of data items reported by institutions to the competent authorities on own funds and own funds requirements, financial information, losses stemming from lending collateralised by immovable property, large exposures, the leverage ratio, liquidity and asset encumbrance, the data items should be subject to common validation rules.

(9) Due to their very nature, validation rules and data point definitions are updated regularly in order to ensure they comply, at all times, with applicable regulatory, analytical and information technology requirements. However, the time presently required to adopt and publish the detailed single data point model and validation rules means that it is not possible to carry out modifications in a sufficiently rapid and timely manner that would ensure permanent uniform supervisory reporting in the Union. Therefore, the detailed data point model laid down in Annex XIV to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 and the detailed validation rules laid down in Annex XV to that Regulation should be replaced by stringent qualitative criteria for the single data point model and validation rules which will be published electronically by the European Banking Authority on its website.

(10) This Regulation is based on the draft implementing technical standards submitted by the European Banking Authority to the Commission.

(11) The European Banking Authority has conducted open public consultations on the draft implementing technical standards on which this Regulation is based, analysed the potential related costs and benefits and requested the opinion of the Banking Stakeholder Group established in accordance with Article 37 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council(4).

(12) To provide institutions and competent authorities with adequate time to implement the requirements of this Regulation in a manner that will produce data of high quality, the first reporting reference date should be 31 December 2014 for all institutions.

(13) Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

OJ L 176, 27.6.2013, p. 1.

(2)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 laying down implementing technical standards with regard to supervisory reporting of institutions according to Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (OJ L 191, 28.6.2014, p. 1).

(3)

Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) (OJ L 302, 17.11.2009, p. 32).

(4)

Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Banking Authority), amending Decision No 716/2009/EC and repealing Commission Decision 2009/78/EC (OJ L 331, 15.12.2010, p. 12).