Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61Show full title

Article 3 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

(1)

‘level 1 assets’ means assets of extremely high liquidity and credit quality as referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 416(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013;

(2)

‘level 2 assets’ means assets of high liquidity and credit quality as referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 416(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013. level 2 assets are further subdivided into level 2A and 2B assets in accordance with Chapter 2 of Title II of this Regulation;

(3)

‘liquidity buffer’ means the amount of liquid assets that a credit institution holds in accordance with Title II of this Regulation;

(4)

‘reporting currency’ means the currency in which the liquidity items referred to in Titles II and III of Part Six of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 must be reported to the competent authority in accordance with Article 415(1) of that Regulation;

(5)

‘asset coverage requirement’ means the ratio of assets to liabilities as determined for credit enhancement purposes in relation to covered bonds by the national law of a Member State or a third country;

(6)

‘SME’ means a micro, small and medium-sized enterprise as defined in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC(1);

(7)

‘net liquidity outflows’ means the amount which results from deducting a credit institution's liquidity inflows from its liquidity outflows in accordance with Title III of this Regulation;

(8)

‘retail deposits’ means a liability to a natural person or to an SME, where the SME would qualify for the retail exposure class under the standardised or IRB approaches for credit risk, or a liability to a company which is eligible for the treatment set out in Article 153(4) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, and where the aggregate deposits by such SME or company on a group basis do not exceed EUR 1 million;

(9)

‘financial customer’ means a customer that performs one or more of the activities listed in Annex I to Directive 2013/36/EU as its main business, or is one of the following:

(a)

a credit institution;

(b)

an investment firm;

(c)

a financial institution;

(d)

a securitisation special purpose vehicle (‘SSPE’);

(e)

a collective investment undertaking (‘CIU’);

(f)

a non-open ended investment scheme;

(g)

an insurance undertaking;

(h)

a reinsurance undertaking;

(i)

a financial holding company or mixed-financial holding company;

(10)

‘personal investment company’ (‘PIC’) means an undertaking or a trust whose owner or beneficial owner, respectively, is a natural person or a group of closely related natural persons, which was set up with the sole purpose of managing the wealth of the owners and which does not carry out any other commercial, industrial or professional activity. The purpose of the PIC may include other ancillary activities such as segregating the owners' assets from corporate assets, facilitating the transmission of assets within a family or preventing a split of the assets after the death of a member of the family, provided these are connected to the main purpose of managing the owners' wealth;

(11)

‘stress’ shall mean a sudden or severe deterioration in the solvency or liquidity position of a credit institution due to changes in market conditions or idiosyncratic factors as a result of which there may be a significant risk that the credit institution becomes unable to meet its commitments as they fall due within the next 30 calendar days;

(12)

‘margin loans’ means collateralised loans extended to customers for the purpose of taking leveraged trading positions.

(1)

Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (OJ L 124, 20.5.2003, p. 36).