Recital 12

(12)Any long-term IT solution for the reporting for the benchmarking exercise under Article 78(2) of Directive 2013/36/EU should offer an institution the possibility to report directly to EBA. However, EBA has been established recently and has limited resources, which limits its capacity to receive reports by institutions directly. An interim IT solution should therefore be established until those problems have been solved. To avoid that an interim solution creates disproportionate burdens on reporting institutions, consistency with other types of reporting by institutions should be ensured and in particular with the IT solution that is referred to in Article 17 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 ³ .