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Version status: Entered into force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 9 June 2014 - onwards
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Article 4 Material changes to the IRB approach

1. Changes to the IRB approach shall be considered material if they fulfil any of the following conditions:

(a) they fall under any of the changes to the range of application of a rating system or internal models approach to equity exposures described in Annex I, Part I, Section 1;

(b) they fall under any changes to the rating systems or internal models approach to equity exposures described in Annex I, Part II, Section 1;

(c) they result in either of the following:

(i) a decrease of 1,5 % of either of the following:

- the overall EU parent institution's consolidated risk-weighted exposure amounts for credit and dilution risk,

- the overall risk-weighted exposure amounts for credit and dilution risk in the case of an institution which is neither a parent institution, nor a subsidiary;

(ii) a decrease of 15 % or more of the risk-weighted exposure amounts for credit and dilution risk associated with the range of application of the internal rating system or internal models approach to equity exposures.

2. For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c)(i) of this Article, and in accordance with Article 3(2), the impact of the change shall be assessed as a ratio calculated as follows: