Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/551 of 4 April 2022 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/85 on the equivalence to the requirements of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the regulatory framework of the United States of America for central counterparties that are authorised and supervised by the U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionText with EEA relevance.

Article 1 of Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/85 is amended as follows:

(1) point (c) is replaced by the following:

(c) in the case of mortgage-backed securities traded on To-Be-Announced basis, a liquidation period of three days calculated on a net basis;;

(2) the following point (d) is added:

(d) in the case of contracts as referred to in points (a), (b) and (c), measures designed to limit procyclicality equivalent to at least one of the following:

(i) measures applying a margin buffer at least equal to 25 % of the calculated margins which the central counterparty allows to be temporarily exhausted in periods where calculated margin requirements are rising significantly;

(ii) measures assigning at least 25 % weight to stressed observations in the look-back period;

(iii) measures ensuring that margin requirements are not lower than those that would be calculated using volatility estimated over a 10 year historical look-back period..

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Done at Brussels, 4 April 2022.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula von der Leyen