Article 8Haircut categories and haircuts for marketable and non-marketable assets

1.

The liquidity categories for marketable assets, as specified in the Eurosystem risk control measures for marketable assets in Table 6 of Section 6.4.2 of Annex I to Guideline ECB/2011/14, shall be referred to as haircut categories throughout that Section, without changes in the assignment of eligible assets to the respective categories.

2.

The levels of valuation haircuts applied to marketable assets, as specified in the Eurosystem risk control measures in Table 7 of Section 6.4.2 of Annex I to Guideline ECB/2011/14, shall be substituted by the haircuts set out in Annex I to this Decision.

3.

The haircut applied to asset-backed securities included in haircut category V, specified in Section 6.4.2(d) of Annex I to Guideline ECB/2011/14, shall be 10 % regardless of maturity or coupon structures.

4.

Own-use covered bonds are subject to an additional valuation haircut. This add-on haircut is directly applied to the value of the entire issuance of the individual debt instrument in the form of a valuation markdown of (a) 8 % for own-use covered bonds in CQS 1&2, and (b) 12 % for own-use covered bonds in CQS3. For these purposes, ‘own-use covered bonds’ means covered bank bonds issued by either a counterparty or entities closely linked to it, and used in a percentage greater than 75 % of the outstanding notional amount by that counterparty and/or its closely linked entities.

5.

The levels of valuation haircuts applied to non-marketable assets, as specified in the Eurosystem risk control measures in Table 9 of Section 6.4.3 of Annex I to Guideline ECB/2011/14, shall be substituted by the haircuts set out in Annex II to this Decision.

6.

The valuation haircut for non-marketable retail mortgage-backed debt instruments, specified in Section 6.4.3.2 of Annex I to Guideline ECB/2011/14, shall be 39,5 % of their outstanding notional amount.