Recital 3

(3)To ensure consistent treatment of significant and less significant credit institutions which are members of IPSs across the SSM and foster consistency in decisions adopted by the ECB and the NCAs, the ECB adopted Guideline (EU) 2016/1994 of the European Central Bank (ECB/2016/38) ⁵ . However, it is necessary to establish a coordinated process for decisions relating to members of the same IPS that consist of both significant and less significant credit institutions, and for the ECB and the NCAs to take a coordinated approach to the monitoring of that IPS, to ensure consistency between decisions taken in relation to significant and less significant credit institutions that are members of the same IPS,