Article 67 2

(a)

whether or not the less significant supervised entity or less significant supervised group is close to meeting one of the criteria contained in Article 6(4) of the SSM Regulation;

(b)

the interconnectedness of the less significant supervised entity or less significant supervised group with other credit institutions;

(c)

whether or not the less significant supervised entity concerned is a subsidiary of a supervised entity which has its head office in a non-participating Member State or a third country and has established one or more subsidiaries, which are also credit institutions, or one or more branches in participating Member States, of which one or more is significant;

(d)

the fact that the ECB’s instructions have not been followed by the NCA;

(e)

the fact that the NCA has not complied with the acts referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 4(3) of the SSM Regulation;

(f)

the fact that the less significant supervised entity has requested or received indirectly financial assistance from the EFSF or the ESM.