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Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 15 September 2017 - onwards
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Article 164a Qualifying infrastructure investments

1. For the purposes of this Regulation, qualifying infrastructure investment shall include investment in an infrastructure entity that meets the following criteria:

(a) the cash flows generated by the infrastructure assets allow for all financial obligations to be met under sustained stresses that are relevant for the risks of the project;

(b) the cash flows that the infrastructure entity generates for debt providers and equity investors are predictable;

(c) the infrastructure assets and infrastructure entity are governed by a regulatory or contractual framework that provides debt providers and equity investors with a high degree of protection including the following:

(a) the contractual framework shall include provisions that effectively protect debt providers and equity investors against losses resulting from the termination of the project by the party which agrees to purchase the goods or services provided by the infrastructure project, unless one of the following conditions is met:

(i) the revenues of the infrastructure entity are funded by payments from a large number of users; or

(ii) the revenues are subject to a rate-of-return regulation;