Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/20142 lays down the requirements according to which institutions should report information relevant to their compliance with Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

The reporting of consistent, accurate and comparable information on credit loss provisions and forborne measures pursuant to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 is an essential element for obtaining comprehensive views on risk profiles of institutions and the systemic risk they pose to the financial sector. In the context of uncertainty regarding asset quality throughout the Union and in order for the European Banking Authority (EBA) and competent authorities to obtain a comprehensive view of the risk profile of the activities of the institutions as well as for the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) to perform its macro-prudential oversight tasks, institutions should be required to report information on their forbearance activities and non-performing exposures.

Forbearance activities and non-performing exposures are covered by existing accounting requirements to disclose information on loans and debt securities exposures and their credit quality pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council3 and to Council Directive 86/635/EEC4. However, there are neither comprehensive, harmonised definitions of the concepts of forbearance and of non-performing exposures, nor specific and detailed supervisory reporting requirements.

Technical standards should therefore establish specific definitions of forbearance and of non-performing exposures, and reporting templates to allow the EBA, competent authorities and the ESRB, to rely on asset quality concepts that are even more harmonised than the currently existing concepts. This would make the reported data even more comparable by minimising differences stemming from the varying concepts of forbearance and the differences in implementation of the default and impairment definitions across the Union. To this extent, the definition of non-performing exposure should act as a harmonised asset quality index, a classification tool, and not as a substitute for the existing definitions of default and impairment.

To provide institutions and competent authorities with adequate time to implement the requirements of this Regulation regarding forbearance activities and non-performing exposures in a manner that will produce high quality data, a deferred remittance date should apply in relation to those reporting requirements.

In order to ensure a correct application of the requirements laid down in Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014, further precision should be provided to the templates, instructions and definitions used for the purposes of supervisory reporting of institutions. Therefore, for reasons of legal clarity, it is appropriate to replace several templates of Annexes I, III and IV and to amend some of the instructions laid down in Annexes II, V, VII and IX. This Regulation is based on draft implementing technical standards submitted by the EBA to the Commission.

The EBA has conducted open public consultations on the draft implementing technical standards regarding forbearance activities and non-performing exposures on which this Regulation is partially based, analysed the potential related costs and benefits and requested the opinion of the Banking Stakeholder Group established in accordance with Article 37 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council5.

Given that the other necessary amendments to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 do not involve significant changes in substantive terms, in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010, the EBA has not conducted any other open public consultation, considering that it would be disproportionate in relation to the scope and impact of the draft implementing technical standards concerned.

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 should therefore be amended accordingly.

In order to ensure that institutions submit as soon as possible the supervisory data to competent authorities to allow them to have a comprehensive picture of the institutions, this Regulation should enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union,