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Incorrect validation rule v4456_m

The validation rule v4456_m is not correctly defined in the taxonomy 2.7. Prerequisites are following: C 47.00 and C 43.00.a and C 43.00.b and C 43.00.c It means that all tables have to be reported. However a bank with a standardised approach to credit risk do not report table C 43.00.c. Consequently the rule can not be applied. In theory a bank can have no data for the table C 43.00.a as well.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2018_3950
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/09/2019

Look-through approach resulting in a credit risk position of own institution

When applying the look-through approach of Article 132(4) CRR, what risk weight shall an institution apply to a position that is based against its own institution?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_3949
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

New risk weights for exposures to central governments or central banks not applicable in DPM 2.7 for C 07.00

How should the new risk weights be applied when they are not currently available in the DPM 2.7?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2018_3947
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 22/02/2019

Report gross or netted cash flows in the row 360 of C66 (maturity ladder) of non-forex and non-option-like derivatives under a valid netting agreement but without collateral agreement

« In the Annex XXIII (Maturity Ladder Instructions), for the row 360 ("1.5 Derivatives amount payables other than those reported in 1.4") , paragraph 2(b), it is stated that "flows related to other contracts than those referred to in point (a) shall be included by projecting the gross contractual flows of cash in the respective time buckets in lines 1.5 ‘derivatives cash- outflows’ and 2.4 ‘derivatives cash-inflows...’". Suppose that there is a group of derivatives (non-forex, non-option-like transactions) traded with the same counterparty under a valid bilateral netting agreement but without a collateral agreement in place, should netted cash flows per counterparty or gross cash flows be reported in row 360? If the netted cash flows should be reported in row 360, should the netted amount be calculated per day, or per time bucket defined for C66 report? For example, in C66, there is a time bucket 'Greater than 7 days up to 2 weeks', can we net an inflow of day 8 with an outflow of day 9 and then report only the net amount in row 360 (if negative) or row 670 (if positive)?”

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2018_3943
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 07/06/2019

Pillar III templates aligned with the new supervisory reporting package, DPM 2.7

Should we adjust template EU CR2-A in order to facilitate the implementation of the EBA Guidelines on disclosure?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2016/11 - Guidelines on disclosure requirements under Part Eight of CRR
  • ID: 2018_3941
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Other
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 12/04/2019

Meaning of current year in validation rule v6167_m

What is meant by “current year” in validation rule v6167_m? Does this date, 31-Dec-'current year-1', refers to Reference Date of filing report minus one year (e.g 31 Dec 2017 - 1 = 31 Dec 2016) or is the exactly current year minus one year ( e.g. 2018 -1 = 2017)?

  • Legal act: Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2016/2070 - ITS on Supervisory Reporting (for benchmarking the internal approaches) (as amended)
  • ID: 2018_3934
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Supervisory Benchmarking
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 29/03/2019

Article 473a(2) – Consideration of accounting provisions for FVOCI debt instruments

Should the ECL on debt instruments classified at fair value through OCI under IFRS9 be included within the calculation of the amount to be added back to CET1 as set in Article 473a.2 ( “static approach”)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_3932
  • Topic: Accounting and auditing
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 05/10/2018

Interaction between Articles 473a and 127 of the CRR (risk weight factor for exposures in default under the standardised approach)

Do banks in order to calculate the thresholds of Article 127 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) have to consider all IFRS 9 provisions (without applying any scaling factor) or the amount of IFRS 9 provisions reduced by applying the scaling factor as per Article 473a?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_3931
  • Topic: Accounting and auditing
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 19/07/2019

IFRS 9, validation rules v6012_m, v6013_m and v6014_m

In template F18.00 rows 211 to 231 for columns 120 and 140 and in template F19.00 rows 211 to 231 for columns 100 and 130 need to be opened. Validation rules v6012_m, v6013_m and v6014_m need to be deactivated as long as these positions are greyed out. These VRs may not be applicable for reporters under nGAAP that measure debt instruments at strict LOCOM and recognize accumulated impairment for performing exposures. Furthermore debt instruments measured at strict LOCOM under Austrian nGAAP are recognized as impaired assets in case there are negative credit-risk induced value adjustments.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2018_3930
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 19/03/2021

Goodwill included in the valuation of significant investments

1. For the purposes of Article 37(b) CRR, are the significant investments of the institution limited to the significant investments in financial sector entities (FSE) or should they include all significant investments (i.e. also significant investments in entities that are not financial sector entities)? 2. Should Article 37(b) CRR be applied only when the significant investments outside the prudential perimeter are valued for prudential purposes using the equity method or should it be applied also when the significant investments are valued for prudential purposes at historical cost? 3. Should the amount to be deducted pursuant to Article 37(b) CRR be limited to goodwill or should it include also the other intangible assets included in the valuation of the significant investments of the institution?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_3929
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Requirements in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1712

- Do the requirements in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1712 only apply to financial contracts resulting in a liability which could be subject to bail-in under resolution, rather than all assets and liabilities?- Are there any expectations on the format/method of submission for the information if/when requested (i.e. excel, CSV, other)?

  • Legal act: Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_3928
  • Topic: Resolution tools and powers
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 15/11/2019

IFRS 9 Transitional arrangements - Calculation of the amount of CET add-back in accordance to Article 473a – paragraph 4

How should the amount referred to in Article 473a(4) be calculated:a) The difference between the Expected Credit Losses (ECL) at reporting date for loans that are not credit impaired and the ECL at implementation date for all the loans that are not credit impaired at the implementation date, or;b) The ECL at reporting date for loans that are not credit impaired minus the ECL at implementation date for those same loans?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_3927
  • Topic: Accounting and auditing
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 25/05/2018

IFRS 9 Transitional arrangements – Reporting of impact on Standardised exposure value of transitional credit risk adjustments

According to Article 473a(7)(b) of CRR, is it possible to report the impact on Standardised exposure value of transitional credit risk adjustments in COREP at an overall level?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_3926
  • Topic: Accounting and auditing
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 25/05/2018

IFRS 9 Transitional arrangements - Calculation of the amount available for CET1 add-back

When assets were measured at amortised cost in accordance with IAS 39 then classified as FVTPL under IFRS 9, should they be included in the calculation of the ‘day 1’ static amount to be added back to CET1 as set in Article 473a(2)(b)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_3925
  • Topic: Accounting and auditing
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 25/05/2018

Classification of a commitment to make under certain conditions an indemnity payment for a customer

Does a commitment to make under certain conditions an indemnity payment on behalf of a customer constitute an “off-balance sheet item other than those mentioned in (Article 166) paragraphs 1 to 8” according to Article 166(10) CRR?If so, does it constitute a medium/ low risk item according to Article 166(10)(c) CRR, specifically as one of the “other items also carrying medium/low risk and as communicated to EBA” according to Annex I, No. 3(b)(ii) CRR?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_3918
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 21/05/2021

Treatment of off-balance sheet exposures measured at reporting date at fair value trough P&L in templates F 18.00 and F 19.00

How should we treat off-balance sheet exposures measured at reporting date at fair value trough P&L from the reporting templates F 18.00 and F 19.00 point of view? Shall we include them into templates or not?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2018_3912
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 22/02/2019