1.When requesting prior approval as referred to in Article 6(3) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/923, supervised credit institutions shall submit the following documentation to the ECB in order to substantiate that the professional activities of a staff member, or the category of staff to which the staff member belongs, have no significant impact on the risk profile of a material business unit, as referred to in Article 6(2)(b) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/923:
a detailed and comprehensive description of the duties and responsibilities of the relevant staff member or category of staff to which the staff member belongs;
an organisational chart of the relevant business unit that shows the hierarchical structure and reporting lines, including the relevant staff member or category of staff to which the staff member belongs;
a detailed description of the criteria established in Article 3 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/923 that have been used to assess that the professional activities of the relevant staff member, or the category of staff to which the staff member belongs, have no significant impact on the risk profile of a material business unit, specifying how these criteria have been applied and how all relevant risk and performance indicators used for internal risk measurement purposes have been taken into account;
a statement explaining why the supervised credit institution awarded the staff member, or category of staff to which the staff member belongs, a remuneration that meets the criteria established in Article 6(1) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/923 even though the staff member has no significant impact on the risk profile of a material business unit;
a reasoned statement explaining why the relevant staff member, or category of staff to which the staff member belongs, does not meet the qualitative criteria established in points (a) and (b) of Article 92(3) of Directive 2013/36/EU and in Article 5 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/923.
2.The ECB may require the supervised credit institution to submit further information to substantiate the application.