- Question ID
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2015_2338
- Legal act
- Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD)
- Topic
- Resolution tools and powers
- Article
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38, 40, 42
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13, 11, 12
- COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs/Recommendations
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n.a.
- Type of submitter
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Competent authority
- Subject matter
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Rights over or in relation to assets, rights and liabilities transferred
- Question
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According to Articles 38 (13), 40 (11) and 42 (12) of Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD), parties whose assets, rights and liabilities are not transferred, shall not have any rights over or in relation to the assets, rights and liabilities that are transferred. What is the rationale of these provisions?
- Background on the question
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We do not understand on which ground these parties can have a right over or in relation to the transferred assets in the first place, so why is it necessary to say that they do not have such a right? But even if they have such a right, why should they lose it when the assets concerned are transferred?
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- Final answer
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Article 75 BRRD provides that, where a shareholder or creditor of an institution has incurred, as a result of a resolution tool, greater losses that it would have incurred in a winding up under normal insolvency proceedings, the relevant shareholder or creditor shall be entitled to the difference from the resolution financing arrangements as compensation. The effectiveness of the resolution tools would be undermined if, notwithstanding the safeguards laid down in Chapter VII of Title IV, shareholders and creditors of the institution under resolution or other third parties whose assets, rights or liabilities have not been transferred could have claims over assets, rights or liabilities that have been transferred. The provisions in Articles 38(13), 40(11) and 42(12) BRRD ensure the dissolution of any links that may have existed prior to the transfer or under national law between the assets, liabilities and rights that are transferred and those that are not.
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Final Q&A
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Answer prepared by the European Commission because it is a matter of interpretation of Union law.
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