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The requirements of the 2015 European Banking Authority (EBA) Colleges Action Plan, aiming to improve functioning of supervisory colleges across the EU, have been fulfilled to a reasonable extent.
Overall the quality of group risk assessments, one of the key outcomes of colleges work, has further improved. Significant effort was observed in the frequency and quality of college meetings. However, the EBA also highlighted substantial drawbacks, namely in relation to some aspects of the joint decision processes, the quality of joint decision documents, and requests for individual recovery plans outside the joint decision process.
Appropriate reasoning and articulation of capital requirements stressed in previous years' assessments still remained a challenge in 2015. In particular, areas where improvements are needed is the granularity of capital requirements by risk type as well as the lack of consistent articulation of additional capital requirements in joint decisions.
The formal joint decision process on the assessment of group recovery plans has been initiated for the vast majority of the monitored colleges. A substantial challenge faced by a number of supervisory colleges was the treatment of pre-existing individual recovery plans, or of requests from host authorities for individual plans for subsidiaries of cross-border banking groups, which were made outside the joint decision process established in the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD).
The report also sets specific items for supervisory attention in 2016 and identifies the need for supervisors to focus on ongoing balance sheet cleaning and non-performing loans (NPLs) reduction for legacy portfolios and to pay particular attention to the sustainability of banks' business models.
Report on the functioning of supervisory colleges in 2015