Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/1103 of 5 July 2021 on the recognition of the legal, supervisory and enforcement arrangements of Brazil for derivatives transactions entered into by Brazilian institutions under the regulation of the Central Bank of Brazil as equivalent to certain requirements of Article 11 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and Council on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories (Text with EEA relevance)

• CELEX: Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/1103
• Articles: 3

Article 1

For the purposes of Article 13(3) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, the legal, supervisory and enforcement arrangements of Brazil for timely confirmation, daily valuation and portfolio reconciliation that are applied to transactions regulated as OTC derivatives by the Banco Central do Brasil (‘BCB’) and the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (‘CVM’) and that are not centrally cleared by a CCP shall be considered as equivalent to the corresponding requirements set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 11 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, where at least one of the counterparties to those transactions is an in-scope counterparty for the purpose of the margin rules of Brazil.

Article 2

For the purposes of Article 13(3) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, the legal, supervisory and enforcement arrangements of Brazil for the exchange of collateral that are applied to transactions regulated as OTC derivatives by the BCB and the CVM, to the exception of physically settled commodity derivatives but not including gold derivatives, and that are not cleared by a CCP shall be considered as equivalent to the requirements of paragraph 3 of Article 11 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, where at least one of the counterparties to those transactions is an in-scope counterparty for the purpose of the margin rules of Brazil.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .