# Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (Text with EEA relevance), Article 501: Adjustment of risk-weighted non-defaulted SME exposures

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

1. Institutions shall adjust the risk-weighted exposure amounts for non-defaulted exposures to an SME (RWEA), which are calculated in accordance with Chapter 2 or 3 of Title II of Part Three of this Regulation and Articles 132a to 132c of Chapter 3 of the Standardised Approach and Internal Ratings Based Approach to Credit Risk (CRR) Part of the PRA Rulebook, as applicable, in accordance with the following formula:
RWEA*=RWEA×minE*; EUR 2500000×0,7619+maxE*−EUR 2500000; 0×0,85E*
where:
RWEA* the RWEA adjusted by an SME supporting factor; and
E* the total amount owed to the institution, its subsidiaries, its parent undertakings and other subsidiaries of those parent undertakings, including any exposure in default, but excluding claims or contingent claims secured on residential property collateral, by the SME or the group of connected clients of the SME.
2. For the purposes of this Article:
(a) the exposure to an SME shall be included either in the retail or in the corporates or secured by mortgages on immovable property classes;
(b) an SME is defined as set out in Article 4(1)(128D) of this Regulation, save that in Article 2 of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC only the annual turnover shall be taken into account;
(c) institutions shall take reasonable steps to correctly determine E* and obtain the information required under point (b).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/575/article/501 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-575/article-501
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