# Decision (EU) 2020/407 of the European Central Bank of 16 March 2020 amending Decision (EU) 2019/1311 on a third series of targeted longer-term refinancing operations (ECB/2020/13), Article 1: Amendments

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Decision (EU) 2019/1311 (ECB/2019/21) is amended as follows:
(1) Article 4 is amended as follows:
(a) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:
‘2. Each participant’s borrowing allowance shall equal 50 % of its total reference outstanding amount, less any amount previously borrowed by that TLTRO-III participant under TLTROs‐II pursuant to Decision (EU) 2016/810 (ECB/2016/10) and still outstanding on the settlement date of a TLTRO-III having regard to any legally binding notification for early repayment submitted by the participant in accordance with Article 6 of Decision (EU) 2016/810 (ECB/2016/10). The relevant technical calculations are outlined in Annex I.’;
(b) paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:
‘4. Each participant’s bid limit for each TLTRO-III shall be equal to its borrowing allowance reduced by the amounts borrowed under previous TLTROs-III. This amount shall be considered to represent a maximum bid limit for each participant and the rules applicable to bids exceeding the maximum bid limit, as laid down in Article 36 of Guideline (EU) 2015/510 (ECB/2014/60), shall apply. The relevant technical calculations are outlined in Annex I.’;
(2) in Article 5a, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
‘1. From September 2021, starting 12 months after the settlement of each TLTRO-III, participants shall, on a quarterly basis, have the option of terminating or reducing the amount of TLTRO-III concerned before maturity.’;
(3) in Annex I, Section 1, the third paragraph is replaced by the following:
‘The borrowing allowance equals 50 % of the reference outstanding amount relating to the participant minus the amounts borrowed by the participant in the targeted longer-term refinancing operations pursuant to Decision (EU) 2016/810 (ECB/2016/10) (TLTROs-II) and still outstanding at the settlement date of the respective TLTRO-III, or zero if such amount is negative, i.e.:
for k = 1,…,7.’;
(4) in Annex I, Section 1, the fifth paragraph is replaced by the following:
‘The bid limit applicable to each participant in each TLTRO-III is its borrowing allowance BAk less the amounts borrowed under previous TLTROs-III. Let be the borrowing of a participant in TLTRO-III k, then where BLk is the bid limit for this participant in operation k that is defined as follows:
for k = 2,…,7.’.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/407/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-407/article-1
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