Indicators of minimum exposure of clearing members and clients established in the Union to the CCP
Article 6
1. The indicators for the purpose of Articles 1 to 5 are the following: (a) the maximum open interest of securities transactions, including securities financing transactions, or exchange traded derivatives denominated in Union currencies cleared by the CCP over a period of one year prior to the assessment or intended to be cleared by the CCP over a period of one year following the assessment is more than EUR 1 000 billion; (b) the maximum notional outstanding of OTC derivatives transactions denominated in Union currencies cleared by the CCP over a period of one year prior to the assessment or intended to be cleared by the CCP over a period of one year following the assessment is more than EUR 1 000 billion; (c) the average aggregated margin requirement and default fund contributions for accounts held at the CCP by clearing members that are entities established in the Union or part of a group subject to consolidated supervision in the Union, calculated by the CCP on a net basis at clearing member account level over a period of two years prior to the assessment is more than EUR 25 billion; (d) the estimated largest payment obligation committed by entities established in the Union or part of a group subject to consolidated supervision in the Union and computed over a period of one year prior to the assessment, that would result from the default of at least the two largest single clearing members and their affiliates, in extreme but plausible market conditions is more than EUR 3 billion. For the purposes of point (d), the payment obligation shall aggregate the commitments in all currencies of the Union converted into EUR as necessary. 2. ESMA may only determine, based on the criteria specified in Articles 1 to 5, that a third-country CCP is a Tier 2 CCP where at least one of the indicators in paragraph 1 is met.