
Article 1 
Pursuant to Article 440 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, this Regulation specifies the disclosure requirements for institutions in relation to their compliance with the requirement for a countercyclical capital buffer referred to in Chapter 4 of Title VII of Directive 2013/36/EU.
Article 2 
The geographical distribution of an institution's credit exposures relevant for the calculation of countercyclical buffer referred to in Article 440(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 shall be disclosed in the standard format as set out in Table 1 of Annex I in accordance with the instructions contained in Parts I and II of Annex II and with the provisions laid down in Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1152/2014.
Article 3 
The amount of an institution's specific countercyclical buffer referred to in Article 440(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 shall be disclosed in the standard format as set out in Table 2 of Annex I in accordance with the instructions contained in Parts I and III of Annex II.
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2016.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 28 May 2015.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX I
Row  General credit exposures Trading book exposure Securitisation exposure Own funds requirements Own funds requirement weights Countercyclical capital buffer rate
Exposure value for SA Exposure value IRB Sum of long and short position of trading book Value of trading book exposure for internal models Exposure value for SA Exposure value for IRB Of which: General credit exposures Of which: Trading book exposures Of which: Securitisation exposures Total
  010 020 030 040 050 060 070 080 090 100 110 120
010 Breakdown by country            
 Country:001            
 002            
 …            
 NNN            
020             
Row  Column
  010
010 Total risk exposure amount 
020 Institution specific countercyclical buffer rate 
030 Institution specific countercyclical buffer requirement 
ANNEX II
PART I (1) 

((a)) Consolidated;
((b)) Individual;
((c)) Sub-consolidated.
 (2) For disclosure on an individual basis in accordance with Part One, Title II of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, institutions shall complete Tables 1 and 2 of these Instructions on an individual basis in accordance with Part One, Title II, Chapter 1 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.
 (3) For disclosure on a consolidated or sub-consolidated basis in accordance with Part One, Title II of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, institutions shall complete Tables 1 and 2 of these Instructions based on a consolidated basis in accordance with Part One, Title II, Chapter 2 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

PART II
The scope of Table 1 is limited to credit exposures relevant for the calculation of CCB in accordance with Article 140(4) of Directive 2013/36/EU.Legal references and instructions
Row number Explanation
010-01X 
List of countries in which the institution has credit exposures relevant for the calculation of the institution-specific countercyclical buffer in accordance with Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1152/2014.

The number of rows may vary depending on the number of countries where the institution has its credit exposures relevant for the calculation of the countercyclical buffer.

In accordance with Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1152/2014, if trading book exposures or foreign credit exposures of an institution represent less than 2 % of its aggregate risk weighted exposures, the institution may choose to allocate these exposures to the place of institution. If the exposures disclosed for the place of institution include exposures from other countries, these should be clearly identified in a note or footnote to the disclosure table.

020 
The value as described in accordance with the explanation for columns 010 to 120 of the current Table.
Legal references and instructions
Column number Explanation
010 
Exposure value of relevant credit exposures defined in accordance with Article 140(4)(a) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Article 111 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

Geographical breakdown is made in accordance with Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1152/2014.

Row 020 (Total): The sum of all relevant credit exposures defined in accordance with Article 140(4)(a) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Article 111 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

020 
Exposure value of relevant credit exposures defined in accordance with Article 140(4)(a) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Article 166 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

Geographical breakdown is made in accordance with EBA/RTS/2013/15.

Row 020 (Total): The sum of all relevant credit exposures defined in accordance with Article 140(4)(a) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Article 166 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

030 
Sum of long and short positions of relevant credit exposures defined in accordance with Article 140(4)(b) of Directive 2013/36/EU, calculated as the sum of long and short positions determined in accordance with Article 327 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

Geographical breakdown is made in accordance with Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1152/2014.

Row 020 (Total): The sum of all long and short positions of relevant credit exposures defined in accordance with Article 140(4)(b) of Directive 2013/36/EU, calculated as the sum of long and short positions determined in accordance with Article 327 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

040 
Sum of the following:


— Fair value of cash positions, that represent relevant credit exposures as defined in Article 140(4)(b) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Article 104 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.
— Notional value of derivatives, that represent relevant credit exposures as defined in accordance with Article 140(4)(b) of Directive 2013/36/EU.

Geographical breakdown is made in accordance with Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1152/2014.

Row 020 (Total): The sum of fair value of all cash positions, that represent relevant credit exposures as defined in Article 140(4)(b) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Article 104 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, and notional value of all derivatives, that represent relevant credit exposures as defined in accordance with Article 140(4)(b) of Directive 2013/36/EU.

050 
Exposure value of relevant credit exposures defined in accordance with Article 140(4)(c) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Article 246(1)(a) and (c) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

Geographical breakdown is made in accordance with Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1152/2014.

Row 020 (Total): The sum of all relevant credit exposures defined in accordance with Article 140(4)(c) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Article 246(1)(a) and (c) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

060 
Exposure value of relevant credit exposures defined in accordance with Article 140(4)(c) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Article 246(1)(b) and (d) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

Geographical breakdown is made in accordance with Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1152/2014.

Row 020 (Total): The sum of all relevant credit exposures defined in accordance with Article 140(4)(c) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Article 246(1)(b) and (d) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

070 
Own funds requirements for relevant credit exposures in the country in question, defined in accordance to Article 140(4)(a) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Part Three, Title II of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

Row 020 (Total): The sum of all own funds requirements for relevant credit exposures, defined in accordance to Article 140(4)(a) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Part Three, Title II of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

080 
Own funds requirements for relevant credit exposures in the country in question, defined in accordance to Article 140(4)(b) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Part Three, Title IV, Chapter 2 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 for specific risk, or in accordance with Part Three, Title IV, Chapter 5 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 for incremental default and migration risk.

Row 020 (Total): The sum of all own funds requirements for relevant credit exposures, defined in accordance to Article 140(4)(b) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Part Three, Title IV, Chapter 2 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 for specific risk, or in accordance with Part Three, Title IV, Chapter 5 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 for incremental default and migration risk.

090 
Own funds requirements for relevant credit exposures in the country in question, defined in accordance to Article 140(4)(c) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Part Three, Title II, Chapter 5 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

Row 020 (Total): The sum of all own funds requirements for relevant credit exposures, defined in accordance to Article 140(4)(c) of Directive 2013/36/EU, determined in accordance with Part Three, Title II, Chapter 5 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

100 
The sum of columns 070, 080 and 090.

Row 020 (Total): The sum of all own funds requirements for relevant credit exposures, defined in accordance to Article 140(4) of Directive 2013/36/EU.

110 
The weight applied to the countercyclical buffer rate in each country, calculated as the total own funds requirements that relates to the relevant credit exposures in the country in question (row 01X, column 100), divided by the total own funds requirements that relates to all credit exposures relevant for the calculation of the countercyclical buffer in accordance with Article 140(4) of Directive 2013/36/EU (row 020, column 100).

This value is disclosed as an absolute number with 2 decimal points.

120 
Countercyclical capital buffer rate applicable in the country in question, and set in accordance with Articles 136, 137, 138 and 139 of Directive 2013/36/EU. This column does not include countercyclical capital buffer rates that were set, but are not yet applicable at the time of computation of the institution-specific countercyclical capital buffer to which the disclosure relates.

This value is disclosed as percentage with the same number of decimal points as set in accordance with Articles 136, 137, 138 and 139 of Directive 2013/36/EU.

PART III
Institutions shall apply the instructions provided in this section in order to complete Table 2 Amount of institution-specific countercyclical capital buffer.Legal references and instructions
Row number Explanation
010 
Total risk exposure amount calculated in accordance with Article 92(3) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

020 
Institution-specific countercyclical capital buffer rate, determined in accordance with Article 140(1) of Directive 2013/36/EU.

The institution-specific countercyclical capital buffer rate is calculated as the weighted average of the countercyclical buffer rates that apply in the countries where the relevant credit exposures of the institution are located and reported in rows 010 to 01X of column 120 of Table 1.

The weight applied to the countercyclical buffer rate in each country is the share of own funds requirements in total own funds requirements relating to relevant credit exposures in the territory in question, and is disclosed in Table 1 column 110.

This value is disclosed as percentage with 2 decimal points.

030 
Institution-specific countercyclical capital buffer requirement, calculated as the institution-specific countercyclical buffer rate, as reported in row 020 of this Table, applied to the total risk exposure amount as reported in row 010 of this Table.
Legal references and instructions
Column number Explanation
010 The value as described in accordance with the explanation for rows 010 to 030 of the current Table.