(2)The general liquidity coverage requirement laid down in Article 4(1) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 and the cover pool liquidity buffer requirement laid down in Article 16 of Directive (EU) 2019/2162 result in an obligation for credit institutions issuing covered bonds to hold a certain amount of liquid assets for the same period of 30 calendar days. However, credit institutions should not have an obligation to cover the same outflows with different liquid assets for the same period. To address that overlap, a new amendment to the encumbrance criterion under the general liquidity coverage requirement should be introduced. This amendment, together with the provisions already in place in the Article 7 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 and still applicable in the case of cover pool segregated assets, would address situations where segregated assets are fulfilling the criteria to be recognised as unencumbered in a prudentially sound way. This new amendment would treat liquid assets held as part of the cover pool liquidity buffer as unencumbered up to the amount of net liquidity outflows stemming from the associated covered bond programme.