PART 2EXCLUDED ACTIVITIES AND EXCEPTIONS

Excluded activities: securitisation and covered bonds7

1

A ring-fenced body does not carry on an excluded activity by selling investments to or buying investments from a sponsored structured finance vehicle of the ring-fenced body, or from a conduit vehicle of the ring-fenced body.

2

A ring-fenced body does not carry on an excluded activity by acquiring any instrument creating or acknowledging indebtedness issued by one or more of its sponsored structured finance vehicles.