Recital 5

(5)As IPSs may consist of both significant and less significant institutions, it is important to ensure the consistent treatment of their members across the SSM, to foster consistency in decisions adopted by the ECB and the NCAs. For IPSs whose members include both significant and less significant credit institutions, it is particularly important that both the ECB, which is responsible for the prudential supervision of significant institutions, and the NCAs, which are responsible for the supervision of less significant institutions, use the same specifications for the eligibility assessment. The use of the same specifications by NCAs is also warranted in the assessment of IPSs consisting solely of less significant institutions, since the composition of the IPSs, as well as the classification of their members as significant or less significant, may change over time,