2023-02-10

Regulation on the Application of Guidelines on the Specification and Disclosure of Systemic Importance Indicators

Banka Slovenije issued this regulation to formally apply the European Banking Authority's guidelines on specifying and disclosing systemic importance indicators to supervised banks and itself. The measure mandates that designated authorities and financial institutions utilize these indicators and report underlying data for identifying global systemically important institutions. The regulation entered into force fifteen days after its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia on 22 January 2021.

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THIS TEXT IS UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION AND MAY NOT BE USED AS A BASIS FOR SOLVING ANY DISPUTE Page 1 of 2  Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 10/21 of 22 January 2021 (in force since 6 February 2021) Pursuant to the third paragraph of Article 13 of the Banking Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, Nos. 25/15, 44/16 [ZRPPB], 77/16 [ZCKR], 41/17, 77/18 [ZTFI-1], 22/19 [ZIUDSOL] and 44/19 [constitutional court decision]; hereinafter: the ZBan-2), 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 application of the Guidelines on the specification and disclosure of systemic importance indicators Article 1 (purpose and field of application of guidelines) (1) Pursuant to Article 16(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Banking Authority), amending Decision No 716/2009/EC and repealing Commission Decision 2009/78/EC (OJ L 331 of 15 December 2010, p 12; hereinafter: Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010), on 16 December 2020 the European Banking Authority published the Guidelines on the specification and disclosure of systemic importance indicators (EBA/GL/2020/14; hereinafter: the guidelines) on its website. (2) In accordance with Article 131(10) of Directive 2013/36/EU, the guidelines relate to the specification of the indicators used for the identification of global systemically important institutions (G‐SIIs) as set out in Regulation (EU) No 1222/2014 (“indicators”), and to the reporting of the underlying data (indicators, ancillary data and memorandum items) and the annual disclosure of the resulting indicator values used for the identification of G‐SIIs. (3) The guidelines are addressed to competent authorities as defined in point (i) of Article 4(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010, and to financial institutions in relation to which these guidelines apply or, when they differ, to designated authorities referred to in Article 133(3) of Directive 2013/36/EU. Article 2 (content of regulation and scope of application of guidelines) (4) By virtue of this regulation Banka Slovenije sets out the application of the guidelines and all their future amendments, unless stipulated otherwise in respect of a particular amendment to the guidelines, to:

  1. banks and savings banks for whose supervision Banka Slovenije is responsible in accordance with the ZBan-2 and Council Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 of 15 October 2013 conferring specific tasks on the European Central Bank concerning policies relating to the prudential supervision of credit institutions (OJ L 28776 of 29 October 2013, p 63) (hereinafter: banks); and
  2. Banka Slovenije, when in accordance with the ZBan-2 in its role as the designated authority it is exercising supervisory powers and tasks over banks referred to in point 1 of this paragraph.

THIS TEXT IS UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION AND MAY NOT BE USED AS A BASIS FOR SOLVING ANY DISPUTE Page 2 of 2 (5) In exercising its supervisory powers and tasks in accordance with the ZBan-2 and Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (OJ L 176 of 27 June 2013, p 1), Banka Slovenije shall take full account of the provisions of the guidelines in the parts relating to the exercise of the powers and tasks of the designated authority. Article 3 (entry into force) This regulation shall enter into force fifteen days after its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia. Ljubljana, 12 January 2021 Boštjan Vasle President, Governing Board of the Bank of Slovenia