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Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 Text with EEA relevance

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 Text with EEA relevance

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 · Regulation · 525 articles

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This instrument has 525 articles. This page lists the table of contents, plus 290 articles that fall under no subdivision; read the full text on each subdivision page or article page.

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PART THREE — CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS
TITLE I — GENERAL REQUIREMENTS, VALUATION AND REPORTING
CHAPTER 2 — Calculation and reporting requirements
CHAPTER 3 — Trading book
TITLE II — CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CREDIT RISK
CHAPTER 1 — General principles

Article 108Use of credit risk mitigation technique under the Standardised Approach and the IRB Approach

Article 109Treatment of securitised exposures under the Standardised Approach and the IRB Approach

CHAPTER 2 — Standardised Approach
Section 1 — General principles

Article 113Calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts

Section 2 — Risk weights

Article 114Exposures to central governments or central banks

Article 115Exposures to regional governments or local authorities

Article 124Exposures secured by mortgages on immovable property

Article 125Exposures fully and completely secured by mortgages on residential property

Article 126Exposures fully and completely secured by mortgages on commercial immovable property

Article 131Exposures to institutions and corporates with a short-term credit assessment

Article 132Exposures in the form of units or shares in CIUs

Section 3 — Recognition and mapping of credit risk assessment
Sub-Section 1 — Recognition of ECAIs
Sub-Section 2 — Mapping of ECAI's credit assessments
Sub-Section 3 — Use of credit assessments by Export Credit Agencies

Article 137Use of credit assessments by Export Credit Agencies

Section 4 — Use of the ecai credit assessments for the determination of risk weights
CHAPTER 3 — Internal Ratings Based Approach
Section 1 — Permission by competent authorities to use the irb approach

Article 144Competent authorities' assessment of an application to use an IRB Approach

Article 146Measures to be taken where the requirements of this Chapter cease to be met

Article 147Methodology to assign exposure to exposures classes

Article 148Conditions for implementing the IRB Approach across different classes of exposure and business units

Article 149Conditions to revert to the use of less sophisticated approaches

Section 2 — Calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts
Sub-Section 1 — Treatment by type of exposure class

Article 152Treatment of exposures in the form of units or shares in CIUs

Sub-Section 2 — Calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts for credit risk

Article 153Risk weighted exposure amounts for exposures to corporates, institutions and central governments and central banks

Article 154Risk weighted exposure amounts for retail exposures

Article 155Risk weighted exposure amounts for equity exposures

Article 156Risk weighted exposure amounts for other non credit-obligation assets

Sub-Section 3 — Calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts for dilution risk of purchased receivables

Article 157Risk weighted exposure amounts for dilution risk of purchased receivables

Section 3 — Expected loss amounts
Section 4 — PD, LGD and maturity
Sub-Section 1 — Exposures to corporates, institutions and central governments and central banks
Sub-Section 2 — Retail exposures
Sub-Section 3 — Equity exposures subject to PD/LGD method

Article 165Equity exposures subject to the PD/LGD method

Section 5 — Exposure value

Article 166Exposures to corporates, institutions, central governments and central banks and retail exposures

Section 6 — Requirements for the IRB approach
Sub-Section 1 — Rating systems

Article 177Stress tests used in assessment of capital adequacy

Sub-Section 2 — Risk quantification

Article 182Requirements specific to own-conversion factor estimates

Article 183Requirements for assessing the effect of guarantees and credit derivatives for exposures to corporates, institutions and central governments and central banks where own estimates of LGD are used and retail exposures

Sub-Section 3 — Validation of internal estimates
Sub-Section 4 — Requirements for equity exposures under the internal models approach

Article 186Own funds requirement and risk quantification

Sub-Section 5 — Internal governance and oversight
CHAPTER 4 — Credit risk mitigation
Section 1 — Definitions and general requirements

Article 193Principles for recognising the effect of credit risk mitigation techniques

Article 194Principles governing the eligibility of credit risk mitigation techniques

Section 2 — Eligible forms of credit risk mitigation
Sub-Section 1 — Funded credit protection

Article 196Master netting agreements covering repurchase transactions or securities or commodities lending or borrowing transactions or other capital market-driven transactions

Article 197Eligibility of collateral under all approaches and methods

Article 198Additional eligibility of collateral under the Financial Collateral Comprehensive Method

Article 199Additional eligibility for collateral under the IRB Approach

Sub-Section 2 — Unfunded credit protection

Article 201Eligibility of protection providers under all approaches

Article 202Eligibility of protection providers under the IRB Approach which qualify for the treatment set out in Article 153(3)

Article 203Eligibility of guarantees as unfunded credit protection

Sub-Section 3 — Types of derivatives
Section 3 — Requirements
Sub-Section 1 — Funded credit protection

Article 205Requirements for on-balance sheet netting agreements other than master netting agreements referred to in Article 206

Article 206Requirements for master netting agreements covering repurchase transactions or securities or commodities lending or borrowing transactions or other capital market driven transactions

Article 208Requirements for immovable property collateral

Article 211Requirements for treating lease exposures as collateralised

Article 212Requirements for other funded credit protection

Sub-Section 2 — Unfunded credit protection and credit linked notes

Article 213Requirements common to guarantees and credit derivatives

Article 214Sovereign and other public sector counter-guarantees

Article 216Additional requirements for credit derivatives

Article 217Requirements to qualify for the treatment set out in Article 153(3)

Section 4 — Calculating the effects of credit risk mitigation
Sub-Section 1 — Funded credit protection

Article 220Using the Supervisory Volatility Adjustments Approach or the Own Estimates Volatility Adjustments Approach for master netting agreements

Article 221Using the Internal Models Approach for Master netting agreements

Article 224Supervisory volatility adjustment under the Financial Collateral Comprehensive Method

Article 225Own estimates of volatility adjustments under the Financial Collateral Comprehensive Method

Article 226Scaling up of volatility adjustment under the Financial Collateral Comprehensive method

Article 227Conditions for applying a 0 % volatility adjustment under the Financial Collateral Comprehensive method

Article 228Calculating risk-weighted exposure amounts and expected loss amounts under the Financial Collateral Comprehensive method

Article 229Valuation principles for other eligible collateral under the IRB Approach

Article 230Calculating risk-weighted exposure amounts and expected loss amounts for other eligible collateral under the IRB Approach

Article 231Calculating risk-weighted exposure amounts and expected loss amounts in the case of mixed pools of collateral

Sub-Section 2 — Unfunded credit protection

Article 234Calculating risk-weighted exposure amounts and expected loss amounts in the event of partial protection and tranching

Article 235Calculating risk-weighted exposure amounts under the Standardised Approach

Article 236Calculating risk-weighted exposure amounts and expected loss amounts under the IRB Approach

Section 5 — Maturity mismatches
Section 6 — Basket CRM techniques
CHAPTER 5 — Securitisation
Section 1 — Definitions
Section 2 — Recognition of significant risk transfer
Section 3 — Calculation of the risk weighted exposure amounts
Sub-Section 1 — Principles

Article 245Calculation of risk-weighted exposure amounts

Article 247Recognition of credit risk mitigation for securitisation positions

Sub-Section 2 — Originator institutions' calculation of risk-weighted exposure amounts securitised in a synthetic securitisation

Article 250Treatment of maturity mismatches in synthetic securitisations

Sub-Section 3 — Calculation of risk-weighted exposure amounts under the Standardised Approach

Article 254Treatment of securitisation positions in a second loss tranche or better in an ABCP programme

Article 256Additional own funds requirements for securitisations of revolving exposures with early amortisation provisions

Article 257Credit risk mitigation for securitisation positions subject to the Standardised Approach

Sub-Section 4 — Calculation of risk-weighted exposure amounts under the IRB Approach

Article 264Credit risk mitigation for securitisation positions subject to the IRB Approach

Article 265Additional own funds requirements for securitisations of revolving exposures with early amortisation provisions

Section 4 — External credit assessments

Article 268Requirements to be met by the credit assessments of ECAIs

CHAPTER 6 — Counterparty credit risk
Section 1 — Definitions
Section 2 — Methods for calculating the exposure value
Section 3 — Mark – to – market Method
Section 4 — Original Exposure Method
Section 5 — Standardised Method
Section 6 — Internal Model Method

Article 285Exposure value for netting sets subject to a margin agreement

Article 286Management of CCR – Policies, processes and systems

Section 7 — Contractual netting

Article 295Recognition of contractual netting as risk-reducing

Article 296Recognition of contractual netting agreements

Article 298Effects of recognition of netting as risk-reducing

Section 8 — Items in the trading book
Section 9 — Own funds requirements for exposures to a central counterparty

Article 303Treatment of clearing members' exposures to CCPs

Article 304Treatment of clearing members' exposures to clients

Article 307Own funds requirements for pre-funded contributions to the default fund of a CCP

Article 308Own funds requirements for pre-funded contributions to the default fund of a Q CCP

Article 309Own funds requirements for pre-funded contributions to the default fund of a non-qualifying CCP and for unfunded contributions to a non-qualifying CCP

Article 310Alternative calculation of own funds requirement for exposures to a Q CCP

Article 311Own funds requirements for exposures to CCPs that cease to meet certain conditions

TITLE III — OWN FUNDS REQUIREMENTS FOR OPERATIONAL RISK
CHAPTER 1 — General principles governing the use of the different approaches

Article 313Reverting to the use of less sophisticated approaches

CHAPTER 2 — Basic indicator approach
CHAPTER 3 — Standardised Approach
CHAPTER 4 — Advanced measurement approaches

Article 323Impact of insurance and other risk transfer mechanisms

TITLE IV — OWN FUNDS REQUIREMENTS FOR MARKET RISK
CHAPTER 1 — General Provisions
CHAPTER 2 — Own funds requirements for position risk
Section 1 — General provisions and specific instruments

Article 331Interest rate risk on derivative instruments

Article 333Securities sold under a repurchase agreement or lent

Section 2 — Debt instruments
Sub-Section 1 — Specific risk

Article 335Cap on the own funds requirement for a net position

Article 336Own funds requirement for non-securitisation debt instruments

Article 337Own funds requirement for securitisation instruments

Article 338Own funds requirement for the correlation trading portfolio

Sub-Section 2 — General risk
Section 3 — Equities
Section 4 — Underwriting
Section 5 — Specific risk own funds requirements for positions hedged by credit derivatives

Article 347Allowance for hedges by first and nth-to default credit derivatives

Section 6 — Own funds requirements for CIUs
CHAPTER 3 — Own funds requirements for foreign-exchange risk

Article 351De minimis and weighting for foreign exchange risk

Article 352Calculation of the overall net foreign exchange position

CHAPTER 4 — Own funds requirements for commodities risk
CHAPTER 5 — Use of internal models to calculate own funds requirements
Section 1 — Permission and own funds requirements

Article 364Own funds requirements when using internal models

Section 2 — General requirements

Article 366Regulatory back testing and multiplication factors

Section 3 — Requirements particular to specific risk modelling
Section 4 — Internal model for incremental default and migration risk

Article 375Recognition of hedges in the internal IRC model

Article 376Particular requirements for the internal IRC model

Section 5 — Internal model for correlation trading

Article 377Requirements for an internal model for correlation trading

TITLE V — OWN FUNDS REQUIREMENTS FOR SETTLEMENT RISK
TITLE VI — OWN FUNDS REQUIREMENTS FOR CREDIT VALUATION ADJUSTMENT RISK

Article 385Alternative to using CVA methods to calculating own funds requirements

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