2025-08-29
The Governing Board of Banka Slovenije issues this regulation to transpose EU directives and implement ECB regulations regarding the prudential supervision of credit institutions. It mandates that banks and savings banks maintain general ledgers and compile annual reports using specific templates and methodologies aligned with IFRS and national law. The document further details the precise content, structure, and submission deadlines for financial statements, consolidated reports, and supervisory financial information.
THIS TEXT IS UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION AND MAY NOT BE USED AS A BASIS FOR SOLVING ANY DISPUTE Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 36/2025 of 16 May 2025 (begins to be applied on 30 June 2025) Pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 109 of the Banking Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, Nos. 92/21, 123/21 [ZBNIP], 2/25 [constitutional court decision] and 17/25; hereinafter: the ZBan-3), and the first paragraph of Article 31 of the Bank of Slovenia Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, Nos. 72/06 [official consolidated version], 59/11 and 55/17), the Governing Board of Banka Slovenije hereby issues the following REGULATION ON THE BOOKS OF ACCOUNT AND ANNUAL REPORTS OF BANKS AND SAVINGS BANKS
2 towards central counterparties and of counterparty risk in centrally cleared derivative transactions (OJ L 2024/2994 of 4 December 2024, p. 1) into Slovenian law. (2) This regulation provides more detailed arrangements for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2015/534 of the European Central Bank of 17 March 2015 on reporting of supervisory financial information (OJ L 86 of 31 March 2015, p. 13; ECB/2015/13), last amended by Regulation (EU) 2023/1678 of the European Central Bank of 17 August 2023 amending Regulation (EU) 2015/534 on reporting of supervisory financial information (OJ L 216 of 1 September 2023, p. 93; ECB/2023/20). Article 3 (use of terms, abbreviations and abbreviated names of regulations) (1) The following abbreviations or abbreviated names are used in this regulation for acts issued by the European Union (hereinafter also: the EU), the European Central Bank (hereinafter also: the ECB), the Republic of Slovenia (hereinafter also: the RS) and Banka Slovenije:
3 9. Directive 2013/34/EU means Directive 2013/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings, amending Directive 2006/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 78/660/EEC and 83/349/EEC (OJ L 182 of 29 June 2013, p. 19), last amended by Directive (EU) 2024/1306 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2024 amending Directive 2013/34/EU as regards the time limits for the adoption of sustainability reporting standards for certain sectors and for certain third-country undertakings (OJ L 2024/1306 of 8 May 2024, p. 1); 10.EBA guidelines on resubmission of historical data means the Guidelines on resubmission of historical data under the EBA reporting framework (EBA/GL/2024/04) of 9 April 2024 published on the website of the European Banking Authority, as set out for application at banks by Banka Slovenije and the European Central Bank. (2) The terms used in this regulation shall have the same meanings as in the ZBan-3, the ZTFI-1, Regulation 575/2013/EU, Regulation 1024/2013/EU and Regulation 468/2014/EU (ECB/2014/17), and in regulations issued on their basis. Article 4 (application of provisions of ZGD-1, IFRS and other regulations) (1) A bank shall administer books of account and compile an annual report and a consolidated annual report in accordance with the ZGD-1, the IFRS, other regulations, and this regulation. (2) A bank shall compile a report on financial information on an individual basis in accordance with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3117. 2. MAINT ENANCE OF GENERAL LEDGER Article 5 (maintenance and content of general ledger) (1) A bank shall maintain a general ledger according to an internal chart of accounts or accounting items from which they can compile a recapitulation of the statement of financial position and the statement of comprehensive income that is drawn up in accordance with the methodology for compiling the recapitulation, which is attached as an appendix to the Guidelines on reporting by MFIs (hereinafter: RECAPITULATION appendix to the Guidelines on reporting by MFIs). (2) A bank shall present the accounting items referred to in the first paragraph of this article in accordance with their content, where they shall, in addition to the regulations referred to in the previous article, take into account, mutatis mutandis, the substantive definition of items, codes and value data set out in the Guidelines on reporting by MFIs considered in the compilation of the recapitulation referred to in the previous paragraph.
4 3. ANNUAL REPORT AND CONSOLIDAT ED ANNUAL REPORT Article 6 (annual report and consolidated annual report) (1) A bank shall compile an annual report for the financial year consisting of a financial report and a management report. The financial report shall comprise a statement of financial position, a statement profit or loss, a statement of comprehensive income, a statement of cash flows, a statement of changes in equity, and an appendix with notes to the financial statements. (2) When a bank is also required to compile a consolidated annual report in accordance with the regulations referred to in Article 4 of this regulation for the financial year, it shall comprise a consolidated financial report and a consolidated management report of the undertakings included in consolidation. The consolidated financial report shall comprise a consolidated statement of financial position, a consolidated statement of profit or loss, a consolidated statement of comprehensive income, a consolidated statement of cash flows, a consolidated statement of changes in equity, and an appendix with notes to the consolidated financial statements. (3) A bank shall enclose the following in the annual report or the consolidated annual report:
5 Article 8 (compilation of financial statements) (1) A bank shall compile the statement of financial position based on accounting information regarding assets, liabilities and equity from the report Accounting items including interest rates (hereinafter: the BS1S report) prepared in accordance with the Guidelines on reporting by MFIs, applying the methodology for compiling the statement of financial position recapitulation set out in the RECAPITULATION appendix to the Guidelines on reporting by MFIs. (2) A bank shall compile the statement of profit or loss on the basis of accounting data regarding revenues and expenses included in profit or loss from the BS1S report, applying the methodology set out in the RECAPITULATION appendix to the Guidelines on reporting by MFIs. (3) A bank shall itemise the statement of other comprehensive income into net profit or loss in the period, and into revenues and expenses included in other comprehensive income in the period on the basis of accounting data regarding revenues and expenses included in profit or loss and other comprehensive income in the period from the BS1S report, applying the methodology set out in the RECAPITULATION appendix to the Guidelines on reporting by MFIs. If a bank includes items of profit or loss referred to in the second paragraph of this article in a statement of comprehensive income instead of a statement of profit or loss, it shall enter them before Item 1 NET PROFIT (LOSS) FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR in the statement of comprehensive income, with the exception of the indicators “Net earnings per share” and “Diluted net earnings per share”, which shall be included after Item COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR AFTER TAX. In the event of selecting the variant referred to in the previous sentence, the bank may itemise in greater detail the items of the statement of comprehensive income that relate to individual components of accumulated other comprehensive income (Items 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 4.4.1, 4.4.2 and 4.4.3) in the notes to the statement of comprehensive income instead of disclosing them in the statement itself. (4) A bank shall itemise the statement of cash flows into cash flows from operating activities, cash flows from investing activities and cash flows from financing activities. A bank shall compile the statement of cash flows according to Variant I or Variant II in a manner proceeding from the template of the statement of cash flows appended to this regulation:
6 period under the relevant items. In an additional row a bank shall also disclose the amounts across individual components of equity from which the distributable profit or distributable loss for the accounting period for which the statement of changes in equity is being compiled is composed, should this not already be included among the notes to the statement of financial position in the notes to the financial statements. (6) A bank shall enter the data from the audited financial statements of the previous financial year in the columns in the financial statements designated for amounts from the previous year. A bank may add columns for earlier financial years in the financial statements after the column for the previous year, and may add notes for the comparative periods in the notes to the financial statements. (7) When a bank applies accounting policies for the period prior to the reference period or restates or reclassifies individual items in the financial statements, it shall also adjust the amounts from the previous year or earlier years as appropriate to make them comparable with the amounts from the financial year in question, unless stipulated otherwise by the IFRS. In the case referred to in the previous sentence, the bank shall also add a column for the beginning of the first comparative period to which the change in question relates after the column for the amount from the previous year or an earlier year in the statement of financial position, and notes for this comparative period in the notes to the statement of financial position. (8) When a bank uses the appended financial statement templates for the purposes of interim reporting, it shall enter data for the following periods:
7 Article 9 (appendix with notes to financial statements) (1) The appendix to the financial statements shall cite all data and information whose disclosure is prescribed by the IFRS, the ZGD-1 and other regulations. (2) A bank shall additionally disclose the following in the notes to the statement of financial position:
8 Article 11 (major data and performance indicators) (1) A bank shall describe individual types of services and transactions, broken down by client segments (non-financial corporations, banks, households) with regard to the activity that they pursue, and broken down into services and transactions provided in the country and in the rest of the world. A bank shall state all the types of financial services that it provided in accordance with a Banka Slovenije authorisation in the period for which the management report is being compiled. (2) A bank shall disclose the breakdown of assets, liabilities and equity, and off-balance-sheet commitments given, and shall explain changes in individual items compared with the previous financial year(s). A bank shall describe its exposures to credit risk, to market risks, including currency risk and interest rate risk, to operational risk and to liquidity risk, defining its approach to the take-up of risks and explaining its strategy for the take-up and management of risks. When disclosing exposures to individual types of risk, a bank shall provide sufficient and comparable data for the previous financial year(s). It shall also present its policy and methodology for allowances for credit losses and provisions. (3) A bank shall cite its ten largest shareholders and their proportion of the voting rights, and shall disclose the total proportion of the voting rights held by non-resident shareholders in the bank as at the final day of the financial year. Where the shareholders’ proportion of the bank’s equity differ from their proportion of the voting rights, the proportions referred to in the previous sentence shall also be disclosed with regard to participation in the bank’s equity, or with an indication that the proportion is the same. (4) A bank shall present the net profit for the financial year or the comprehensive income for the financial year after tax, itemising the revenues and expenses by basic type. In this section the bank shall disclose the impact that individual types of transaction have on performance, and the impact that transactions with significant risk and transactions executed by the bank in high-risk geographical regions have on performance. (5) A bank shall also as a rule disclose the following under major data and performance indicators:
9 (h) income tax related to continuing and discontinued operations; 3. from the statement of comprehensive income: (a) other comprehensive income before tax, (b) income tax related to other comprehensive income; 4. number of branches (as at the end of the financial year); 5. number of employees (as at the end of the financial year); 6. shares: (a) number of shareholders, (b) number of shares, (c) nominal value of one share or corresponding amount of share capital of one no-par-value share, (d) book value of one share; 7. selected indicators: (a) capital: − common equity Tier 1 capital ratio, − Tier 1 capital ratio, − total capital ratio; (b) quality of assets and commitments given: − non-performing (on-balance-sheet and off-balance-sheet) exposures / classified on-balance-sheet and off-balance-sheet exposures, − non-performing loans and advances / classified loans and advances (excluding cash balances at central banks and demand deposits at banks), − allowances for credit losses / non-performing loans and advances (excluding cash balances at central banks and demand deposits at banks), − collateral received / non-performing loans and advances (excluding cash balances at central banks and demand deposits at banks), − non-performing loans and advances / classified loans and advances (including cash balances at central banks and demand deposits at banks), − allowances for credit losses / non-performing loans and advances (including cash balances at central banks and demand deposits at banks); (c) profitability: − interest margin, − financial intermediation margin, − return on assets after tax, − pre-tax return on equity, − return on equity after tax; (d) operating costs: − operating costs / average assets; (e) liquidity: − liquidity coverage ratio, − net stable funding ratio; (f) leverage: − leverage ratio. (6) In the report a bank shall disclose the data and indicators set out in the previous paragraph for the last three financial years.
10 (7) When disclosing the values of the relevant indicators referred to in point 7 of the fifth paragraph of this article, a bank shall state whether they used transitional arrangements in accordance with applicable acts of the European Union, for which reason the calculated values of the relevant indicators are different than if those previous arrangements had not been used. (8) A bank shall also disclose other data and indicators that it deems material to the presentation of the bank. 3.3 Consolidated financial report Article 12 (consolidated financial statements) (1) A bank shall include consolidated financial statements in the consolidated financial report using the prescribed templates that are given in Appendices 5 to 10 of this regulation, which are an integral part hereof. The consolidated financial statements are: − the consolidated statement of financial position (template in Appendix 7), − the consolidated statement of profit or loss (template in Appendix 8), − the consolidated statement of comprehensive income (template in Appendix 9), − the consolidated statement of changes in equity (template in Appendix 10), and − the consolidated statement of cash flows according to Variant I (template in Appendix 5) or Variant II (template in Appendix 6). (2) Statement of profit or loss items may be included by a bank in the consolidated financial report in a consolidated statement of comprehensive income instead of a consolidated statement of profit or loss. (3) In compiling the consolidated financial statements a bank shall take account of the IFRS and, mutatis mutandis, the provisions of Article 8 of this regulation. Article 13 (appendix with notes to consolidated financial statements) (1) A bank shall apply the provisions of Article 9 of this regulation mutatis mutandis when compiling the appendix with notes to the consolidated financial statements. (2) In addition to the notes referred to in the previous paragraph, a bank shall also disclose the following in the appendix with notes to the consolidated financial statements:
11 (e) corporate income tax paid, and (f) public subsidies received. 3.4 Consolidated management report Article 14 (consolidated management report) (1) In addition to the data and information prescribed by the ZGD-1 and other regulations, a bank shall present the following in the consolidated management report:
12 5. REPORT ING OF FIN ANCIAL INFORMAT ION ON IND IV IDUA L BASIS Article 16 (reporting entities and extent of reporting) (1) A bank or a branch of a bank of a non-participating Member State or a third country that is subject to prudential requirements in accordance with Regulation 575/2013/EU on an individual basis shall submit a report on financial information on an individual basis in the following extents:
13 subsidiary credit institution have been less than or equal to EUR 3 billion at the end of three consecutive quarters. (2) A bank referred to in point 5 of the first paragraph of the previous article shall submit a report on financial information for the first time in accordance with the provisions of the fourth paragraph of the previous article on the first reference date after its total assets have exceeded EUR 1 billion at the end of four consecutive quarters. If the total assets of a bank no longer exceed EUR 1 billion at the end of three consecutive quarters, its obligation to submit a report on the financial information set out in point 3 of the first paragraph of Article 18 of this regulation shall cease on the next reference date. Article 18 (content and format of report) (1) The report on financial information shall include the following content from the templates set out in Section 2 of Annex I of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2024/3117 on an individual basis, depending on the extent required under Article 16 of this regulation:
14 − 18.2 Information on performing and non-performing exposures: Commercial Real Estate (CRE) loans, and additional information on loans secured by immovable property; 3. simplified financial reporting in templates: − all templates referred to in points 1 and 2 of this paragraph, − 6.1 Breakdown of loans and advances other than held for trading, trading or held for sale assets to non-financial corporations by NACE codes, − 9.2 Loan commitments, financial guarantees and other commitments received, − 13.1 Collateral and guarantees received: Breakdown of collateral and guarantees by loans and advances other than held for trading, − 13.2.1 Collateral and guarantees received: Collateral obtained by taking possession during the period (held at the reference date), − 13.3.1 Collateral and guarantees received: Collateral obtained by taking possession accumulated, − 16.1 Breakdown of selected statement of profit or loss items: Interest income and expenses by instrument and counterparty sector, − 16.3 Breakdown of selected statement of profit or loss items: Gains or losses on financial assets and liabilities held for trading and trading financial assets and trading financial liabilities by instrument, − 17.1 Reconciliation between accounting and CRR scope of consolidation: Assets, − 17.2 Reconciliation between accounting and CRR scope of consolidation: Off-balance-sheet exposures – Loan commitments, financial guarantees and other commitments given, − 17.3 Reconciliation between accounting and CRR scope of consolidation: Liabilities and equity, − 20.4 Geographical breakdown of assets by residence of the counterparty, − 20.5 Geographical breakdown of off-balance-sheet exposures by residence of the counterparty, − 20.6 Geographical breakdown of liabilities by residence of the counterparty, − 40.1 Group structure: “entity-by-entity“ (annual reporting frequency); 4. full financial reporting in all templates set out in Section 2 of Annex I of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2024/3117. (2) The financial information in templates 17.1, 17.2, 17.3 and 40.2 referred to in points 3 and 4 of the previous paragraph shall only be included in the report referred to in the previous paragraph by a bank that compiles consolidated financial statements in accordance with the IFRS and Section 3 of this regulation but is not subject to prudential requirements on a consolidated basis in accordance with Regulation 575/2013/EU. (3) The instructions published by the European Banking Authority on its website in accordance with Article 22 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3117 shall be taken into account when completing the templates referred to in the first paragraph of this article. Article 19 (frequency and method of submission of reports) (1) A bank shall compile the report in the extent set out in Article 16 and with the content set out in Article 18 of this regulation with the frequency and taking account of the reporting threshold for the relevant templates as set out by Article 11 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3117. (2) A bank shall compile the report referred to in the previous paragraph in accordance with the Technical guidelines for reporting published on Banka Slovenije’s website.
15 Article 20 (deadlines for submitting reports) (1) A bank shall submit the report in the extent set out in Article 16 and with the content set out in Article 18 of this regulation by the deadlines set out in the first, second, fourth and fifth paragraphs of Article 3 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2024/3117. (2) In the resubmission of reports for reason of identified errors, a bank shall take account of the European Banking Authority’s guidelines on resubmission of historical data. 6. FINAL PROV IS IONS Article 21 (cessation of validity of regulations) (1) On the day that this regulation enters into force, the Regulation on the books of account and annual reports of banks and savings banks (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 184/21) shall cease to be in force. (2) On the day that this regulation enters into force, the Guidelines for calculating performance indicators of banks and savings banks (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 195/21) shall cease to be in force, but shall continue to be applied until the issuance of guidelines under the second paragraph of Article 22 of this regulation. Article 22 (entry into force and application) (1) This regulation shall enter into force on the day after its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, and shall begin to be applied on 30 June 2025. (2) The Governor of Banka Slovenije shall issue guidelines for the implementation of this regulation, which shall define in detail the methodology used to calculate the indicators set out in the fifth paragraph of Article 11 of this regulation. Ljubljana, 13 May 2025 Primož Dolenc Acting President, Governing Board of Banka Slovenije