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Stand:updated on 11.06.2019 Banking Supervisory Disclosure

Article 144 of the Capital Requirements Directive (2006/48/EC) stipulates that all EU member states must publish information on national implementation of Basel II. To mark the transposition of Basel II into German law. The Deutsche Bundesbank and BaFin have published a joint website. The structural specifications for this were drawn up by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) and have been adopted uniformly by all national supervisory authorities.

When Directive 2013/36/EU (Capital Requirements Directive – CRD IV) entered into force, the supervisory disclosure provisions were amended to reflect the new regulatory requirements. The Directive also stipulated that the EBA was to develop regulatory technical standards regarding the structure and format of the information to be disclosed. These standards were endorsed by the EU Commission in mid 2014 and have been updated in 2019.

The Supervisory Disclosure website provides detailed information on:

  • the relevant laws, regulations and administrative rules;
  • the exercise of national options and discretions;
  • the criteria and methodologies of the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP); and
  • aggregate statistical data on key aspects of the implementation.

The objective of the Supervisory Disclosure is to ensure a meaningful comparison of the national implementation of European law in each of the EU Member States.

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