(a)

‘instalments’ or ‘instalments on contributions’ means the instalments on contributions to be collected by the Board in accordance with this Regulation to cover the administrative expenditures of the Board during the provisional period;

(b)

‘administrative expenditures of the Board’ means the expenditures of Part I of the budget of the Board during the provisional period;

(c)

‘total assets’ means the total value of assets derived from the line ‘total assets’ on the consolidated, where relevant, balance sheet of the significant entity as reported in accordance with the relevant Union law for prudential purposes as of 31 December 2013 or as of the applicable reporting date for the financial year 2013, if the financial year ends at a later date than 31 December;

(d)

‘significant entities’ means the entities that have been notified by the ECB, at the highest level of consolidation within the participating Member States, of the ECB's decision to consider them significant within the meaning of Article 6(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 and in accordance with Article 147(1) of Regulation (EU) No 468/2014, and which are mentioned in the list published on the ECB's website on 4 September 2014, but excluding those significant entities, which are subsidiaries of a group already taken into account in this definition, and branches, which are established in participating Member States, of credit institutions established in non-participating Member States;

(e)

‘instalment notice’ means a notice specifying the amount of the instalment on contribution to be collected in advance, issued to each relevant significant entity in accordance with this Regulation;

(f)

‘provisional period’ means a period beginning on 19 August 2014 and ending on 31 December 2015, or ending on the day of application of the final system of administrative contributions adopted by the Commission in accordance with Article 65(5)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 806/2014, whichever is later;

(g)

‘competent authority’ means a competent authority as defined in Article 4(2)(i) of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 (4).