The treatment of Physical Stock balances

According to Annex XX (template) and Annex XXI (instructions) of Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 (ITS on Supervisory Reporting) institutions shall report their concentration of counterbalancing capacity by issuer/counterparty as one of the additional monitoring metrics. In template C 71.00, the institutions shall report both the ten most important issuers/counterparties and all other items used as counterbalancing capacity. Q&A  2014_1084 already specifies that if an issuer/ counterparty is assigned to more than one product type, the total amount should be reported and the product type reported shall be the product in which the largest proportion of assets/ liquidity was obtained. To the extent that physical stock balances of gold or other commodities fall under the ten largest holdings of assets, institutions do not have to provide information on the issuer/counterparty name (column 010), LEI code (column 020), issuer / counterparty sector (column 030), residence of the issuer/counterparty (column 040) and the credit quality step (column 070). As for the product type (column 050), institutions shall report ‘Gold’ in case the largest proportion of the assets is in form of physical stock balances of Gold or ‘OPT’ (Other product type) in case the largest proportion of the assets is in form of physical stock balances of other commodities.