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Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/2251 Article 1

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/2251 Article 1

Definitions

Article 1

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘initial margin’ means the collateral collected by a counterparty to cover its current and potential future exposure in the interval between the last collection of margin and the liquidation of positions or hedging of market risk following a default of the other counterparty; (2) ‘variation margin’ means the collateral collected by a counterparty to reflect the results of the daily marking-to-market or marking-to-model of outstanding contracts referred to in Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012; (3) ‘netting set’ means a set of non-centrally cleared over-the-counter (‘OTC’) derivative contracts between two counterparties that is subject to a legally enforceable bilateral netting agreement.

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