Article 214 Sovereign and other public sector counter-guaranteesX1

the counter-guarantee covers all credit risk elements of the claim;

both the original guarantee and the counter-guarantee meet the requirements for guarantees set out in Articles 213 and 215(1), except that the counter-guarantee need not be direct;

the cover is robust and nothing in the historical evidence suggests that the coverage of the counter-guarantee is less than effectively equivalent to that of a direct guarantee by the entity in question.

a central government or a central bank;

a regional government or a local authority;

a public sector entity, claims on which are treated as claims on the central government in accordance with Article 116(4);

a multilateral development bank or an international organisation, to which a 0 % risk weight is assigned under or by virtue of Articles 117(2) and 118 respectively;

a public sector entity, claims on which are treated in accordance with Article 116(1) and (2).