(7)On the basis of those difficulties and in order to provide those counterparties with an additional period of time to finalise the necessary clearing arrangements it is appropriate to postpone the dates on which the clearing obligation takes effect for counterparties within Category 3. However, account has already been taken of the incentives to centralise risk management within a group in relation to intragroup transactions and the postponement of the dates has no impact on those incentives and those dates concerning certain OTC derivatives concluded between counterparties belonging to the same group.