On April 24, 2018, a Commission Implementing Regulation was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. This Amending Regulation, which takes effect on May 15, 2018, revises a Commission Implementing Regulation adopted in October 2016 under the CRR.
Under the CRR, firms that use the Standardised Approach for the purposes of calculating their capital requirements for credit risk can use external credit assessments to determine the credit quality of exposures.These external credit assessments must be made by External Credit Assessment Institutions. ECAIs are either credit rating agencies registered under the CRA Regulation or central banks that issue credit ratings (which are exempt from the application of the CRA Regulation). The 2016 Implementing Regulation set out Implementing Technical Standards for the mapping of the credit quality of exposures (obtained from ECAIs) to their corresponding risk weights.
The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities consulted in July 2017 on the need to make changes to the 2016 Implementing Regulation to reflect the fact that, since it was adopted, five additional ECAIs had been recognized and one ECAI had been de-registered. The Joint Committee submitted draft revised ITS to the Commission in December 2017 and the Commission has adopted them in the Amending Regulation. The Amending Regulation ((EU) 2018/634) is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R0634&from=EN and details of the July 2017 consultation are available at: https://finreg.shearman.com/european-banking-authority-proposes-revised-techn.
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