Article 1Amendment

In Article 2 of Decision (EU) 2016/948 (ECB/2016/16), point 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2.

If a marketable debt instrument has an initial maturity of 365/366 days or less, the minimum remaining maturity shall be 28 days at the time of its purchase by the relevant Eurosystem central bank.

If a marketable debt instrument has an initial maturity of 367 days or more, the minimum remaining maturity shall be 6 months and the maximum remaining maturity shall be 30 years and 364 days at the time of its purchase by the relevant Eurosystem central bank’.