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Transfer order

Whereas the FMSA provided stabilisation assistance under the Financial-Market Stabilisation Fund Act under certain conditions and upon application up until 31 December 2010, the Restructuring Fund Act currently envisages a two-stage procedure for restructuring and reorganising credit institutions. First, distressed banks are given the opportunity to initiate the reorganisation procedure for credit institutions voluntarily. If they choose not to do so, the supervisory authorities can take steps to protect the systemically important component of the institution, in particular, by transferring the systemically important components of the distressed institutions to an existing bank or a bridge bank established by the FMSA. This bridge bank maintains and restructures the systemically important components of the business. The non-systemically important assets that remain with the transferring institution can, where necessary, be liquidated through insolvency proceedings.

If a transfer order entails measures by the Restructuring Fund, the Steering Committee should decide on these measures at the same time as approving the transfer order. There shall be no legal entitlement to benefits from the Fund.