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AI Summary of Article 78a Permission to reduce eligible liabilities instruments

The resolution authority may grant permission for institutions to call, redeem, repay, or repurchase eligible liabilities instruments under specific conditions. These include replacing such instruments with own funds of equal or superior quality, demonstrating sufficient own funds and liabilities above required thresholds, or showing necessity to comply with own funds requirements for continued authorisation.

The authority can issue a general prior permission for these actions, subject to certain criteria and a maximum duration of one year, which may be renewed. Regulatory technical standards will be developed by EBA to clarify cooperation processes and define ‘sustainable for the income capacity of the institution’.

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Version date: 27 June 2019 - onwards

Article 78a Permission to reduce eligible liabilities instruments

1. The resolution authority shall grant permission for an institution to call, redeem, repay or repurchase eligible liabilities instruments where one of the following conditions is met:

(a) before or at the same time as any of the actions referred to in Article 77(2), the institution replaces the eligible liabilities instruments with own funds or eligible liabilities instruments of equal or higher quality at terms that are sustainable for the income capacity of the institution;

(b) the institution has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the resolution authority that the own funds and eligible liabilities of the institution would, following the action referred to in Article 77(2) of this Regulation, exceed the requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities laid down in this Regulation and in Directives 2013/36/EU and 2014/59/EU by a margin that the resolution authority, in agreement with the competent authority, considers necessary;