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Figure 5:
Questions submitted by topic
Own funds
9%
Credit risk
10%
Other topics
9%
Liquidity risk
9%
Market risk
5%
Large exposures
2%
BRRD
7%
DGSD
0%
Supervisory reporting
49%
Providing legal support
to EBA regulatory products
Throughout 2016, the Legal Unit provided le-
gal support to the governing bodies, to the
management and to the core policy and op-
erational functions of the EBA. As regards the
EBA’s regulatory activities, the Legal Unit has
ensured legal analysis and support in drafting
binding technical standards, guidelines, rec-
ommendations and opinions, and legal analy-
sis of proposed technical standards, guide-
lines and recommendations. Legal advice has
also been supplied for oversight activities in
producing supervisory recommendations and
in dispute resolution as well.
Under the European Economic Area (EEA), the
EU and three EFTA member states (Liechten-
stein, Norway, Iceland) have agreed, in 2016, to
extend the EU’s internal market rules also to
these EFTA countries.
Delivering digital services
to support the EBA’s core functions
and its internal administration
In 2016, the IT focus was on maintaining and
supporting production systems for data col-
lection and infrastructure and implementing
a number of projects in line with the IT work
programme. To enhance and support the im-
plementation of the Single Rulebook with ef-
fective solutions, the EBA implemented two
releases of the European Supervisory Plat-
form (ESP) to extend the regulatory frame-
work in financial and common reporting to
Data Point Model (DPM) version 2.4.1. A spe-
cial application, called Master Data Manage-
ment (MDM), was deployed and is now being
used to centrally manage the reference data.
Additionally, a new project was initiated to al-
low several data providers to notify general or
specific information to the EBA on an ad hoc
or regular basis.
Regarding business solutions, further im-
provements were implemented to optimise
the administrative efficiency of the EBA. The
electronic document management system has
been implemented to allow internal EBA us-
ers to share, store and retrieve documents in
a more consistent, secure and efficient way.
In the infrastructure domain, further improve-
ments have been implemented. An internal ser-
vice desk, integrated with the already existing
ticketing system, has been implemented to deal
with all internal issues in an automated way.
Communicating and
promoting the EBA’s work
The EBA’s Fifth Anniversary Conference, held
in early February, considerably raised the
agency’s visibility. With a web live stream and
active promotion through social media, the
feedback received from attendees and speak-
ers was very positive.