Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 447/2012Show full title

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 447/2012 of 21 March 2012 supplementing Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on credit rating agencies by laying down regulatory technical standards for the assessment of compliance of credit rating methodologies (Text with EEA relevance)

Article 6U.K.Assessing that a credit rating methodology is continuous

A credit rating agency shall use credit rating methodologies shall that are designed and implemented in a way that enables them to:

(a)

continue to be used unless there is an objective reason for the credit rating methodology to change or be discontinued;

(b)

be capable of promptly incorporating any finding from ongoing monitoring or a review, in particular where changes in structural macroeconomic or financial market conditions would be capable of affecting credit ratings produced by that methodology;

(c)

compare credit ratings across different asset classes.