The Pension Fund Clearing Obligation Exemption and Intragroup Transaction Transitional Clearing and Risk-Management Obligation Exemptions (Extension and Amendment) Regulations 2023

Statutory Instruments

2023 No. 472

Financial Services

The Pension Fund Clearing Obligation Exemption and Intragroup Transaction Transitional Clearing and Risk-Management Obligation Exemptions (Extension and Amendment) Regulations 2023

Made

26th April 2023

Laid before Parliament

27th April 2023

Coming into force

12th June 2023

The Treasury make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 89(1) of Regulation (EU) 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories(1) (“UK EMIR”) and by regulation 84(1) of the Over the Counter Derivatives, Central Counterparties and Trade Repositories (Amendment, etc., and Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019(2).

In accordance with the fourth subparagraph of Article 89(1) of Regulation (EU) 648/2012, the Treasury have concluded for the purposes of extending the exemption in the first subparagraph of Article 89(1) of that Regulation that no appropriate technical solution has been developed for the transfer by pension scheme arrangements and EEA pension scheme arrangements of cash and non-cash collateral as variation margins and that the adverse effect of centrally clearing derivative contracts on the retirement benefits of future pensioners remains.

(1)

EUR 2012/648, amended by S.I. 2019/1416; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

(2)

S.I. 2019/335, amended by S.I. 2020/1385.