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Validation rules taxonomy V4.0 C08.01/C08.02

The EBA Validation rules taxonomy v10666_m seems not relevant.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2024/3117 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2025_7440
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 04/06/2025

Validation rules taxonomy V4.0 C08.01/C08.02

The EBA Validation rules taxonomy v10664_h seems not relevant.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2024/3117 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2025_7438
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 04/06/2025

Can a receivable be identified as IPRE if a mortgage exists, but the securing property is not recognised as collateral?

Art. 124 para. 1 stipulates that banks receive a risk weight of 150% for IPRE receivables that do not fulfil all the conditions set out in para. 3. The question is what constellation of conditions must be met for this case to realistically materialise. An institution should normally be able to fulfil subsections a to d in para. 3. Paragraph 3 contains a reference to Article 208 and paragraph 1 of Article 229 in sub-item e. Article 229 paragraph 1 describes the property valuation and will not generally present institutions with insurmountable problems either. Article 208 begins with the statement that a property is only recognised as collateral if the following paragraphs 2 to 5 are fulfilled. One hurdle could possibly be the monitoring of the property value in accordance with paragraph 3. However, it is also conceivable that an institution will generally refrain from recognising real estate collateral due to an insignificant share in the portfolio. Can a receivable that is effectively secured by a mortgage be identified as an IRPE risk position without recognised real estate collateral, resulting in an RW of 150% under Art. 124 para. 1? Or does non-recognition also mean that the exposure is not to be regarded as collateralised (by a property) for the calculation of own funds and consequently receives the risk weight of an unsecured exposure?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2025_7434
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 31/07/2025

Reporting of COREP_OF C10.00 template

Are credit institutions that apply the Standardized Approach (SA) for credit risk and the Internal Model Method (IMM) for counterparty credit risk, in order to calculate exposure amounts of SA exposures, required to report template C10.00 row 0270 (Memo item)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2025_7433
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 19/09/2025

Risk weighting attributed to gold in the form of a commodity

Is the definition of 'gold bullion', as recently amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/1623, consistent with the previous definition of 'gold' under Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR), as clarified by EBA Q&A 2016_3011, in the sense that it includes all forms of gold commodities (such as bars, ingots, jewels, manufactured products, and coins) whose value is determined exclusively by gold content—defined by purity and mass—regardless of their form, provided that no numismatic, artistic, branding, or other extrinsic value is attributed?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2025_7423
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 01/05/2025

Clarification on Risk Weight Assignment for ADC Exposures in Default

Could you please clarify what risk weight should be applied to ADC exposures that are in default?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2025_7419
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 21/05/2025

Risk Weights for International Organisations under the Standardised Approach

Is it permissible that exposures to NATO Communication and Information Agency are assigned a 0 % risk weight under Article 118(f) CRR?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2025_7411
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 18/07/2025

Application of real estate valuation principles to AIRB

Are the valuation principles per CRR 229.1(e) (capping to 6/8-year averages) applicable when using own estimates of LGD (AIRB)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2025_7405
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 02/09/2025

Instructions for Row 0080 COREP template C 07.00

Should contractual arrangements that meet all of the conditions set out in Article 5, points (10)(a) to (e) of the CRR, be reported in the row 0800 of the template C 07.00?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2025_7402
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 19/09/2025

Interaction between CRR3 article 124 and article 193

When should an IPRE exposure be riskweighted at 150% according to CRR3 article 124 para 1 (b)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2025_7401
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 08/07/2025

Maturity floor for SFT transactions under a master netting agreement that does not fulfill the enforceability criteria of CRR Article 206.

Does the EBA recognise that Securities Financing Transactions (SFT) conducted under an industry master netting agreement (MNA) such as GMRA or GMSLA could be subject to the 5-day floor maturity under CRR Article 162(2)(d) to the extend such MNA (i) meets the requirements of CRR Article 207 (2) to (4) on the eligibility of the collateral but (ii) does not necessarily fulfill the close-out netting enforceability criteria of Article 206 due to local law and absence of robust netting legislation for instance? 

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2025_7397
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 01/08/2025

Calculation of minimum lease payments in case of operational lease

Does the EBA acknowledge that the residual value should be discounted, or the interests on this residual value should be filtered out of the calculation of the discounted minimum lease payments, to avoid an increase of the exposure beyond the accounting value?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2025_7393
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 21/05/2025

AIRB combined with Financial Collateral Comprehensive Method

Article 223 para 4 subpara (b) indicates that banks using the A-IRB approach can also utilize the Financial Collateral Comprehensive Method (FCCM). Does the EBA agree with this?  

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2025_7382
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:

Exposures to institutions waived from individual capital requirements according to article 7 CRR, under Credi Risk Standarised Approach

How should exposures to institutions be treated under Credi Risk Standarised Approach, if such institutions have been waived of individual capital requirements? Shall these exposures be assigned to grade C, or can the level of compliance with capital requirements be assessed by taking consolidated requirements as reference?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2025_7363
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:

Calculation of risk-weighted exposure amounts for off-balance exposure in case of Unfunded Credit Protection (UFCP)

What is the correct treatment in cases where the consideration of CRM according to articles 235, 235a or 236 leads to higher calculated risk-weighted exposure amounts than those calculated without considering CRM, even when the risk weight of the protection provider is lower? 

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2025_7357
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 08/07/2025

Calculation of risk weights

How should institutions calculate a risk weight amended for credit protection in accordance with Chapter 4?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2025_7356
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 08/07/2025

Calculation of the SME supporting factor for off-balance-sheet exposures

Is the SME supporting factor applicable, and if so, how shall it be computed, in case there is no on-balance-sheet exposure to be included in E*, as defined in Article 501(1) of CRR?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2025_7350
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:

Validation rules taxonomy V4.0 C08.01 v4770_m

The formula v4770_m specifies that for C08.01, the total sheet is the sum of all the IRB Foundation sheets, including the memorandum items.However, Final ITS instructions specify that memo subcategories must be reported separately as a subclass of exposure, not linked to the total IRB exposures classes. Also, in the C02.00, lines with reference to memorandum items are shaded and not included in the totalization.The control seems incoherent.Could you please therefore confirm that sheets with reference to memo items should be removed from the formula?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2024/3117 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2025_7326
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 26/02/2025

Validation rules taxonomy V4.0 C08.01 v4769_m

The formula v4769_m specifies that for C08.01, the total sheet is the sum of all the IRB Advanced sheets, including the memorandum items.However, Final ITS instructions specify that memo subcategories must be reported separately as a subclass of exposure, not linked to the total IRB exposures classes. Also, in the C02.00, lines with reference to memorandum items are shaded and not included in the totalization.The control seems incoherent.Could you please therefore confirm that sheets  with reference to memo items should not be taken into account in the formula?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2024/3117 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2025_7325
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 26/02/2025

Validation rules taxonomy V4.0 C09.02 v6052_m

According to the formulae v6052_m : {r0150} = {r0010} + {r0011} + {r0012} + {r0013} +{r0020} + {r0030} + {r0060} + {r0132} +{r0140} in c0010, c0030, c0040, c0050, c0055, c0060, c0070, c0105, c0110, c0120, c0125, c0130 in C09.02 “CR GB 2”.This control ensures that the sum of exposures declared in line 0150 "Total exposures" is equal to the sum of lines 0010 "Central governments or central banks", 0011 "Of which: Regional governments or local authorities", 0012 "Regional governments or local authorities", 0013 "Public sector entities", 0020 "Institutions", 0030 "Corporates", 0060 "Retail", 0132 "Collective investments undertakings (CIU)" and 00140 "Equity" in CR GB 2.However, the line 0011 is an "of which" of the line 0010 which is also in the formula, this means that it will be doubly taken into account in the totalization.Could you please therefore confirm that the line 0011 should be deleted from the formula?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2024/3117 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2025_7324
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 26/02/2025