On June 8, 2017, the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (“ECON“) published its draft report on the proposed Regulation amending the Capital Requirements Regulation (Regulation 575/2013) (“CRR“) regarding the transitional period for mitigating the impact on own funds of the introduction of International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (“IFRS 9“) and the large exposures treatment of certain public sector exposures denominated in non-domestic currencies of member states.

The European Commission’s November 2016 legislative proposal for a Regulation amending the CRR (“CRR II Regulation“) contained transitional provisions relating to IFRS 9 and the large exposures treatment of certain public sector exposures. The explanatory statement to the draft report explains that the Presidency of the Council of the EU proposed that these provisions should be split from the proposed CRR II Regulation and dealt with in a separate draft Regulation “to allow for a timely entering into force of these transitional provisions.” The European Parliament’s Conference of Presidents approved the proposed split in May 2017. On June 1, 2017, the Council of the EU published the final Presidency compromise proposal relating to the split-out Regulation.

The draft report contains a European Parliament legislative resolution on the Regulation, the text of which sets out suggested amendments to the proposed CRR II Regulation that reflect the splitting out of the transitional provisions into a separate Regulation. The amendments delete provisions in the CRR II Regulation that do not relate to the transitional provisions. The report states that the deleted parts will be covered in a separate ECON report. It also contains an explanatory statement by the rapporteur, Peter Simon.