1.   The criteria referred to in Article 5(1)(a) and Article 6(1)(c) shall be applied for the first time within four months from the date of entry into force of this Regulation and shall be based on the values of financial instruments initially recorded or centrally maintained in securities accounts by the CSD on 31 December of the previous calendar year.

2.   The criteria referred to in Article 5(1)(b) and in Article 6(1)(a) and (b) shall be applied for the first time within four months from the date of application referred to in Article 9(2) and shall be based on the values of financial instruments centrally maintained in securities accounts by the CSD on 31 December of the previous calendar year.

3.   For the period commencing on the date of entry into force of this Regulation and ending on the date of application referred to in the second paragraph of Article 55 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014, the following shall apply:

(a)	by way of derogation from Article 5(2), the market value of financial instruments shall be the nominal value of those instruments;

(b)	by way of derogation from Article 6(2)(b), the market values of the relevant financial instruments shall be the nominal value of those financial instruments.