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Version date: 27 June 2019 - onwards
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Article 47 Treatment of shareholders in bail-in or write down or conversion of capital instruments

1. Member States shall ensure that, when applying the bail-in tool in Article 43(2) or the write down or conversion of capital instruments in Article 59, resolution authorities take in respect of shareholders and holders of other instruments of ownership one or both of the following actions:

(a) cancel existing shares or other instruments of ownership or transfer them to bailed-in creditors;

(b) provided that, in accordance to the valuation carried out under Article 36, the institution under resolution has a positive net value, dilute existing shareholders and holders of other instruments of ownership as a result of the conversion into shares or other instruments of ownership of:

(i) relevant capital instruments issued by the institution pursuant to the power referred to in Article 59(2); or

(ii) bail-inable liabilities issued by the institution under resolution pursuant to the power referred to in point (f) of Article 63(1).