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The draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specify the additional objective criteria listed in the Delegated Act (Commission Delegated Regulation EU No 2015/61 of 10 October 2014), for the application of a preferential treatment in the calculation of the liquidity coverage requirement (LCR) for cross-border intragroup liquidity flows. The proposed draft RTS set out in more detail the additional criteria that institutions within a group or within an institutional protection scheme (IPS) need to meet in order to be able to apply higher inflows and/or lower outflows on liquidity and credit facilities on cross-border transactions. These criteria, as already specified in the LCR Delegated Act, aim at ensuring the effectiveness of the liquidity support.

These RTS aim at developing methods to determine additional collateral outflows stemming from the impact of an adverse market scenario on an institution’s derivatives positions, financing transactions and other contracts, if material.

Following the Commission’s adoption on 10 October 2014 of a Delegated Act specifying the LCR framework, the EBA has now developed amendments to the current ITS on reporting. These draft ITS will provide credit institutions with a completely new set of templates and instructions so as to capture all the necessary LCR items and to adequately ensure a proper supervisory reporting of the LCR according to the Commission’s Delegated Act. The proposed amendments are only applicable to credit institutions and not to investment firms (the latter will continue reporting the LCR items using the current instructions and templates).

These technical standards (ITS and RTS) draw a list of currencies featuring constraints on the availability of liquid assets and specify the derogations that could be applied to such currencies to address the inherent difficulties that institutions would face in meeting their liquidity coverage requirement even in spite of a sound liquidity management.

These Guidelines propose harmonised definitions and templates for funding plans of credit institutions, with the objective of ensuring consistency in the way the reporting of funding plans is conducted.