{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2251/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2251/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/2251",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/2251 of 4 October 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories with regard to regulatory technical standards for risk-mitigation techniques for OTC derivative contracts not cleared by a central counterparty (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2251",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:\n(1) ‘initial margin’ means the collateral collected by a counterparty to cover its current and potential future exposure in the interval between the last collection of margin and the liquidation of positions or hedging of market risk following a default of the other counterparty;\n(2) ‘variation margin’ means the collateral collected by a counterparty to reflect the results of the daily marking-to-market or marking-to-model of outstanding contracts referred to in Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012;\n(3) ‘netting set’ means a set of non-centrally cleared over-the-counter (‘OTC’) derivative contracts between two counterparties that is subject to a legally enforceable bilateral netting agreement.",
  "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/eur/2016/2251/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:45:18.172261+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."
}