Article 16 Specification of circumstances for the use of Method 3 pursuant to Directive 2002/87/EC

(a)

it is not reasonably feasible to apply either method 1 as referred to in Annex I to Directive 2002/87/EC to all entities or method 2 as referred to in Annex I to Directive 2002/87/EC to all entities within a financial conglomerate, in particular because method 1 cannot be used for one or more entities because they are outside the scope of consolidation, or because a regulated entity is established in a third country and it is not possible to obtain sufficient information to apply one of the methods to that entity;

(b)

the entities which would apply one of the methods are collectively of negligible interest with respect to the objectives of supervision of regulated entities in a financial conglomerate.