Article 1

For the purposes of Article 13(3) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, the legal, supervisory and enforcement arrangements of the United States of America for the exchange of collateral that apply to transactions regulated as ‘swaps’ as defined in section 721 of the Dodd-Frank Act or ‘security-based swaps’ as defined in section 761 of the Dodd-Frank Act and that are not cleared by a central counterparty shall be considered as equivalent to the requirements of Article 11(3) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012, where at least one of the counterparties to those transactions is established in the USA and considered a Covered Swap Entity by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (‘the FRS’), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (‘the OCC’), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (‘the FDIC’), the Farm Credit Administration (‘the FCA’) or the Federal Housing Finance Agency (‘the FHFA’), and that the counterparty is subject to the Swap Margin Rule laid down in Title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations, respectively in Part 45 (for the OCC), 237 (for the FRS), 349 (for the FDIC), 624 (for the FCA) and 1221 (for the FHFA) (together ‘the Swap Margin Rule’).