Own funds: Value adjustments for prudent valuation (Additional Value Adjustments)

Article 34 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) requires institutions to deduct from CET1 the amount of any additional value adjustments on all assets measured at fair value calculated in accordance with a prudent valuation of these assets based on the provisions specified in Article 105 of CRR. In this context, paragraph 14 of Article 105 of CRR specifies that EBA shall submit draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) to the Commission by 28 July 2013 (as per CRR corrigendum published on 2 August 2013). In this regard the EBA published a draft consultation paper (EBA/CP/2013/28) whereby it is specified that "as a consequence of the EBA decision to conduct a QIS, the EBA currently envisages to finalise the technical standard in Q2 2014". On 7 October 2013 the EBA published revised deadlines for the delivery of the technical standards to the European Commission; in particular it is specified that the revised deadline for the submission of the RTS on prudent valuation (Article 105(14) CRR) has been postponed to 1 June 2014. Therefore it is not clear as concerns the first reporting date on Q12014 whether institutions must: 1) not apply the prudential filter (i.e. the relative reporting item shall be valued zero) until the publication of the final EBA RTS 2) calculate the prudential filter in accordance with the Basel II framework (i.e. requirements for prudent valuation defined by each local regulator) 3) calculate the prudential filter in accordance with the draft EBA standards as defined in consultation paper EBA/CP/2013/28

The provisions contained in the CRR and the EBA RTS are not sufficiently clear with regard to the methodology to be used in order to complete the first reporting on Q1 2014.