1.   The resolution authority shall ensure that the valuations referred to in Article 24 are carried out:

(a)	by a person independent from any public authority and from the CCP; or

(b)	by the resolution authority, where those valuations cannot be carried out by a person as referred to in point (a).

2.   The valuations referred to in Article 24 shall be considered definitive where they are carried out by the person referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1 of this Article and all the requirements laid down in this Article are fulfilled.

3.   Without prejudice to the Union State aid framework, where applicable, a definitive valuation shall be based on prudent assumptions and shall not assume any potential provision of extraordinary public financial support, any central bank emergency liquidity assistance or any central bank liquidity assistance provided under non-standard collateralisation, tenor and interest rate terms to the CCP from the point in time at which resolution action is taken. The valuation shall also take account of the potential recovery of any reasonable expenses incurred by the CCP under resolution in accordance with Article 27(10).

4.   A definitive valuation shall be supplemented by the following information held by the CCP:

(a)	an updated balance sheet and a report on the financial position of the CCP, including the remaining available pre-funded resources and outstanding financial commitments;

(b)	the records of cleared contracts referred to in Article 29 of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012; and

(c)	any information on the market and accounting values of its assets, liabilities and positions, including relevant claims and outstanding obligations owed or due to the CCP.

5.   A definitive valuation shall indicate the subdivision of the creditors in classes in accordance with their priority levels under the applicable insolvency law. It shall also include an estimate of the treatment that each class of shareholders and creditors would have been expected to receive in application of the principle specified in point (e) of Article 23(1).

The estimate referred to in the first subparagraph shall not prejudice the valuation referred to in Article 61.

6.   ESMA, taking into account the regulatory technical standards developed in accordance with Article 36(14) and (15) of Directive 2014/59/EU and adopted pursuant to Article 36(16) thereof, shall develop draft regulatory technical standards to specify:

(a)	the circumstances in which a person is deemed to be independent from both the resolution authority and from the CCP for the purposes of paragraph 1 of this Article;

(b)	the methodology for assessing the value of the assets and liabilities of the CCP; and

(c)	the separation of the valuations under Articles 24 and 61 of this Regulation.

ESMA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 12 February 2022.

The Commission is empowered to supplement this Regulation by adopting the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.