Art. 10 · Assessment of resolvability

Previous version, in force 10 November 2025 02014R0806-20251110 → this version, in force 11 June 2026 02014R0806-20260611

Article 10 Assessment of resolvability 1. When drafting and updating resolution plans in accordance with Article 8, the Board, after consulting the competent authorities, including the ECB, and the resolution authorities of non-participating Member States in which significant branches are located insofar … 391 unchanged words … manner where a group is deemed not to be resolvable. Where a group is composed of more than one resolution group, the Board shall assess the resolvability of each resolution group in accordance with this Article. The assessment referred to in the first third subparagraph shall be performed in addition to the assessment of the resolvability of the entire group. 5. For the purposes of paragraphs 3, 4 and 10, significant adverse consequences for the financial system or threat to financial stability refers to a situation where the financial system is actually or potentially exposed to a disruption that may give rise to financial distress liable to jeopardise the orderly functioning, efficiency and integrity of the internal market or the economy or the financial system of one or more Member States. In determining the significant adverse consequences the Board shall take into account the relevant warnings and recommendations of the ESRB and the relevant criteria developed by EBA in considering the identification and measurement of systemic risk. 6. For the purpose of the assessment referred to in this Article, the Board shall examine the matters specified in Section C of the Annex to Directive 2014/59/EU. 7. If, pursuant to an assessment of the resolvability for of an entity or a group carried out in accordance with paragraph 3 or 4, the Board, after consulting the competent authorities, including the ECB, determines that there are substantive impediments to the resolvability of that entity or group, the Board shall prepare a report, in cooperation with the competent authorities, addressed to the institution entity or the parent undertaking analysing the substantive impediments to the effective application of resolution tools and the exercise of resolution powers. That report shall consider the impact on the institution's entity’s or the group’s business model and recommend any proportionate and targeted measures that, in the Board's Board’s view, are necessary or appropriate to remove those impediments in accordance with paragraph 10. 8. The report shall also be notified to the competent authorities and to the resolution authorities of non-participating Member States in which significant branches of institutions which are not part of a group are located. It shall be supported by reasons for the assessment or determination in question and shall indicate how that assessment or determination complies with the requirement for proportionate application laid down in Article 6. 9. Within four months from the date of receipt of the report, the entity or the parent undertaking shall propose to the Board possible measures to address or remove the substantive impediments identified in the report. The Board shall communicate any measure proposed by the entity or parent undertaking to the competent authorities, to EBA and, where significant branches of institutions that are not part of a group are located in non-participating Member States, to the resolution authorities of those Member States. Within two weeks of the date of receipt of a report made in accordance with paragraph 7 of this Article, the entity shall propose to the Board possible measures and a timeline for their implementation to ensure that the entity or the parent undertaking complies with Article 12f or 12g, and the combined buffer requirement, where a substantive impediment to resolvability is due to either of the following situations: (i) the entity meets the combined buffer requirement when considered in addition to each of the requirements referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of Article 141a(1) of Directive 2013/36/EU, but does not meet the combined buffer requirement when considered in addition to the requirements referred to in Articles 12d and 12e of this Regulation when calculated in accordance with point (a) of Article 12a(2) of this Regulation; or (ii) the entity does not meet the requirements referred to in Articles 92a and 494 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 or the requirements referred to in Articles 12d and 12e of this Regulation. When proposing the timeline for the implementation of measures referred to in the second subparagraph, the entity shall take into account the reasons for the substantive impediment. The Board, after consulting the competent authorities, including the ECB, shall assess whether those measures effectively address or remove the substantive impediment in question. 10. The Board, after consulting Where the competent authorities, shall assess whether the measures referred to in paragraph 9 effectively address or remove the substantive impediments in question. If Board finds that the measures proposed by the entity or the parent undertaking concerned do not effectively reduce or remove the substantive impediments to resolvability, the Board shall take a decision, Board, after consulting having consulted the competent authorities and, where appropriate, the designated macro-prudential authority, indicating shall take a decision. That decision shall indicate that the Board has assessed that the measures proposed do not effectively reduce or remove the substantive impediments to resolvability, resolvability and instructing shall instruct the national resolution authorities to require the institution, entity, the parent undertaking, or any subsidiary of the group concerned, concerned to take any of the measures listed in paragraph 11. In identifying alternative measures, the Board shall demonstrate how the measures proposed by the institution entity or the parent undertaking concerned would not be able to remove the substantive impediments to resolvability and how the alternative measures proposed are proportionate in removing them. The Board shall take into account the threat to financial stability of those impediments to resolvability and the effect of the measures on the business of the institution, entity or the parent undertaking concerned, its stability and its ability to contribute to the economy, on the internal market for financial services and on the financial stability in other Member States and the Union as a whole. The Board shall also take into account the need to avoid any impact on the institution entity or the group concerned which would go beyond what is necessary to remove the impediment to resolvability or which would be disproportionate. 11. For the purpose of paragraph 10, the Board, where applicable, shall instruct the national resolution authorities to take any of the following measures: (a) to require the entity to revise any intragroup financing agreements or review the absence … 426 unchanged words … and 11 shall meet the following requirements: (a) it shall be supported by reasons for the assessment or determination in question; (b) it shall indicate how that assessment or determination complies with the requirement for proportionate application laid down in paragraph 10.