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AI Summary of Article 34 Additional value adjustments

This regulation mandates that institutions apply the provisions of Article 105 to all assets valued at fair value when calculating their own funds. Institutions must also deduct any necessary additional value adjustments from their Common Equity Tier 1 capital.

In extraordinary circumstances, as assessed by the European Banking Authority (EBA), institutions may be permitted to lower the total additional value adjustments that must be deducted from their Common Equity Tier 1 capital. The EBA will monitor market conditions to identify such circumstances and will develop regulatory technical standards to detail the indicators and conditions for this derogation, with a submission deadline set for 10 July 2026.

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Article 34 Additional value adjustments

1. Institutions shall apply the requirements of Article 105 to all their assets measured at fair value when calculating the amount of their own funds and shall deduct from Common Equity Tier 1 capital the amount of any additional value adjustments necessary.

2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, in extraordinary circumstances, the existence of which shall be determined by an opinion provided by EBA in accordance with paragraph 3, institutions may reduce the total additional value adjustments in the calculation of the total amount to be deducted from Common Equity Tier 1 capital.

3. For the purpose of providing the opinion referred to in paragraph 2, EBA shall monitor the market conditions to assess whether extraordinary circumstances have occurred and, if so, shall notify the Commission thereof immediately.

4. EBA, in consultation with ESMA, shall develop draft regulatory technical standards to specify the indicators and conditions that EBA will use to determine the extraordinary circumstances referred to in paragraph 2 and to specify the reduction of the total aggregated additional value adjustments referred to in that paragraph.

EBA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 10 July 2026.

Power is delegated to the Commission to supplement this Regulation by adopting the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010.