Section 1 Changes requiring competent authorities' approval ('material')

1. Changes in the organisational and operational structure of the independent risk management function for operational risk according to Article 321 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 which reduce the ability of the operational risk management function to oversee and inform the decision making processes of the business and support units they control.

2. Changes to the measurement system for operational risk if they fulfil any of the following criteria:

(a) they change the architecture of the measurement system regarding the combination of the four data elements of internal and external loss data, scenario analysis, business environment and internal control factors, according to Article 322(2)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013;

(b) they change the logics and drivers of the methodology for allocating the operational risk capital between the different entities of a group according to Article 20(1)(b) and 322(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

3. Changes to the procedures relating to internal and external data, scenario analysis and business environment and internal control factors where they: