Pro-rata of pool to work out encumbered and un-encumbered assets (F32.01, F32.03, F32.04, F33.00, F35.00, F36.01).

As stated in the instructions of the templates of asset encumbrance as provided in Annex XVII to Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 (ITS on Supervisory Reporting), assets in a cover pool used for a covered bond issuance shall be considered as encumbered, with the exception of ‘own-issued bonds’ in some situations. ‘Own-issued bonds’ refer to covered bond issuances where the reporting institution holds the covered bonds. In the case of ‘own-issued bonds’, if the own covered bonds are pledged, then the cover pool shall be considered as encumbered. If that is not the case, it shall be classified as non-encumbered. The above is assuming that reporting institutions can differentiate assets in the cover pool related to their own issuance from those which are linked to covered bonds sold to third parties. If that is not the case, a pro-rata based on the percentage of covered bonds held by the reporting institutions, out of the whole issuance, can be accepted. For example, if the reporting institution is retaining 10% of the covered bond issuance, the pro-rata to be used for the allocation of assets in the cover pool to the ‘own-issued bonds’ shall be 10%. From this 10%, the reporting institution would classify as ‘encumbered’ those which have been pledged whereas those which are not pledged would be deemed to be unencumbered (and reported in template AE-NPL).