Recital 1

(1)The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (‘FRTB’), whose final rules were adopted by the Basel Committee in January 2019, seeks to address the shortcomings identified during the global financial crisis as regards the own funds requirements for market risks. As part of the improvement brought by the FRTB, a new own funds requirement was introduced under the standardised approach to capture the default risk of exposures to debt and equity instruments. It is necessary to provide further technical elements to clarify the specifications of the FRTB rules introduced into Union law by Regulation (EU) 2019/876 of the European Parliament and of the Council ² for the purpose of reporting requirements, and to complement those specifications where necessary. Those technical elements concern the calculation of the gross jump-to-default (‘JTD’) amounts for exposures to debt and equity instruments, the estimation of the gross jump-to-default amounts for exposures to default risk arising from certain derivative instruments, and the specification of the notional amounts of instruments other than the instruments referred to in Article 325w(4) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.