(1)

Directive 2014/59/EU as amended by Directive (EU) 2019/879 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) introduced certain safeguards to enhance effective resolution execution in relation to financial contracts governed by third-country law.

(2)

In accordance with Article 71a(1) of Directive 2014/59/EU, institutions and entities are required to include terms that recognise the stay powers of resolution authorities in their financial contracts that they enter into and which are governed by third-country law.

(3)

In order to improve the efficiency of resolution, Article 68 of Directive 2014/59/EU lays down that certain crisis prevention measures or crisis management measures should not be deemed to be enforcement events or as insolvency proceedings. Furthermore, that article lays down that such measures should not entitle contracting counterparties in relevant contracts to exercise certain contractual rights solely as a result of the application of such measures. It is therefore necessary to include the parties’ acceptance to be bound by these requirements in the content of the contractual terms. In addition, under Articles 33a, 69, 70 and 71 of Directive 2014/59/EU, resolution authorities may, for a limited period of time, suspend contractual payment or delivery obligations due under a contract with an institution or an entity under resolution or in certain circumstances before resolution, restrict the enforcement of security interests and suspend certain rights of counterparties to, for instance, close out, net gross obligations, accelerate future payments or otherwise terminate financial contracts. As these powers of the resolution authorities might not be effective when applied to financial contracts under third-country law, they should be explicitly recognised in the terms of financial contracts.

(4)

In order to ensure the effectiveness of resolution and promote consistency in the approaches adopted by Member States, and in order to ensure that differences in their legal systems or differences arising from a particular contractual form or structure can be taken into account by resolution authorities, institutions and entities, it is appropriate to lay down the mandatory content for the contractual terms. The content of these contractual terms should take into account institutions’ and entities’ different business models. However, as financial contracts in international transactions generally do not vary in accordance with the institutions’ or the entities’ business model, it is not necessary to create different content for contractual recognition clauses.

(5)

This Regulation is based on the draft regulatory technical standards submitted to the Commission by the European Banking Authority (EBA).

(6)

The EBA has conducted open public consultations on the draft regulatory technical standards on which this Regulation is based, analysed the potential related costs and benefits and requested the advice of the Banking Stakeholder Group established in accordance with Article 37 of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3),