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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1986-635/article-38",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1986/635",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 8 December 1986 on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of banks and other financial institutions (86/635/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1986-635",
  "path": "article/38",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Pending subsequent coordination, those Member States which exercise the option provided for in Article 37 must permit and those Member States which do not exercise that option may permit the introduction of a Liabilities item 6A entitled ‘Fund for general banking risks’. That item shall include those amounts which a credit institution decides to put aside to cover such risks where that is required by the particular risks associated with banking.\n2. The net balance of the increases and decreases of the ‘Fund for general banking risks’ must be shown separately in the profit and loss account.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1986/635/article/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:33.227242+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}