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Article 37 - Content of the business reorganisation plan

Article 37

Content of the business reorganisation plan

1.   The business reorganisation plan referred to in Article 36 shall set out measures aiming to restore the long-term viability of the CCP or parts of its business within a reasonable timeframe. Those measures shall be based on realistic assumptions as to the economic and financial market conditions under which the CCP will operate.

The business reorganisation plan shall take account of the current and potential states of the financial markets and reflect best-case and worst-case assumptions, including a combination of events to identify the CCP’s main vulnerabilities. Assumptions shall be compared with appropriate sector-wide benchmarks.

2.   The business reorganisation plan shall include at least the following elements:

(a)

a detailed analysis of the factors and circumstances that caused the CCP to fail or to be likely to fail;

(b)

a description of the measures to be adopted to restore the CCP’s long-term viability; and

(c)

a timetable for the implementation of those measures.

3.   Measures aiming to restore the long-term viability of a CCP may include:

(a)

the reorganisation and restructuring of the activities of the CCP;

(b)

changes to the CCP’s operational systems and infrastructure;

(c)

the sale of assets or of business lines;

(d)

changes to the CCP’s risk management.

4.   ESMA shall by 12 February 2023 develop draft regulatory technical standards to specify further the minimum elements that should be included in a business reorganisation plan pursuant to paragraph 2.

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.