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Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 8 July 2019 - onwards
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Article 189 Scope

1. The capital requirement for counterparty default risk shall be equal to the following:

where:

(a) SCRdef,1 denotes the capital requirement for counterparty default risk on type 1 exposures as set out in paragraph 2;

(b) SCRdef,2 denotes the capital requirement for counterparty default risk on type 2 exposures as set out in paragraph 3.

2. Type 1 exposures shall consist of exposures in relation to the following:

(a) Risk-mitigation contracts including reinsurance arrangements, special purpose vehicles and insurance securitisations;

(b) Cash at bank as defined in Article 6 item F of Council Directive 91/674/EEC [Council Directive 91/674/EEC of 19 December 1991 on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of insurance undertakings, OJ L 374, 31.12.1991, p. 7.];

(c) Deposits with ceding undertakings, where the number of single name exposures does not exceed 15;