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There are currently no open public consultations.
Final ECB Guide on climate-related and environmental risks
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Available in English only.
Available in English only.
Revised ECB guide to internal models - General topics chapter
Press release
ECB Guide to the internal capital adequacy assessment process (ICAAP)
ECB Guide to the internal liquidity adequacy assessment process (ILAAP)
FAQs - revised
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Addendum to the ECB Guidance to banks on non-performing loans: supervisory expectations for prudential provisioning of non-performing exposures
FAQs - revised
Comparison of pre- and post-consultation versions of the addendum
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Guideline of the ECB of 4 April 2017 on the exercise of options and discretions available in Union law by national competent authorities in relation to less significant institutions (ECB/2017/9)
Recommendation of the ECB of 4 April 2017 on common specifications for the exercise of some options and discretions available in Union law by national competent authorities in relation to less significant institution (ECB/2017/10)
Press release
Guidance to banks on non-performing loans
Questions & Answers
Comparison of pre- and post-consultation versions of the guidance
The draft Regulation determines the exercise of options and discretions available in Union law and mandated to competent authorities, concerning prudential requirements for credit institutions. The exercise of those options and discretions provided for in this Regulation is directly applicable to credit institutions classified as significant.
ECB Regulation on the exercise of options and discretions in Union law
ECB Guide on options and discretions
The draft Regulation lays down the requirements for reporting on supervisory financial information to be submitted to national competent authorities (NCAs) by significant and less significant supervised entities and groups, established in participating Member States, including branches established in a participating Member State by a credit institution established in a non-participating Member State.
ECB Regulation on reporting of supervisory financial information
The draft Regulation sets out the arrangements under which the ECB will levy and collect the annual supervisory fee for expenditure incurred in relation to its supervisory tasks. In particular, it establishes the methodology for:
The SSM Regulation requires the ECB, in consultation with national competent authorities (NCAs), to adopt and make public a framework to organise the practical arrangements for the implementation of the cooperation between the ECB and the NCAs within the SSM. Accordingly, the ECB, in consultation with the NCAs, prepared a draft ECB Regulation (the ECB SSM Framework Regulation), which lays down rules and procedures governing the cooperation between the ECB and the NCAs, on both micro-prudential and macro-prudential tasks.