28.3.2015 Official Journal of the European Union L 84/67 DECISION (EU) 2015/530 OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK of 11 February 2015 on the methodology and procedures for the determination and collection of data regarding fee factors used to calculate annual supervisory fees (ECB[2015/7) THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK, Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 of 15 October 2013 conferring specific tasks on the European Central Bank concerning policies relating to the prudential supervision of credit institutions (*), and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 4(3), Article 30 and the second subparagraph of Article 33(2) thereof, Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 of the European Central Bank of 22 October 2014 on supervisory fees (ECB/2014[41) (¥, and in particular Article 10(3)(b), Article 10(4) and (5) thereof, Whereas: (1)  In accordance with Article 30(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013, the annual supervisory fees to be levied on credit institutions established in the participating Member States or branches established in a participating Member State by a credit institution established in a non-participating Member State will be calculated at the highest level of consolidation within participating Member States and will be based on objective criteria relating to the importance and risk profile of the credit institution concerned, including its risk weighted assets. (2)  In accordance with Article 10(3)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41), the fee factors used to determine the individual annual supervisory fee payable in respect of each supervised entity or supervised group will be the amount, as at the end of the calendar year, of: (i) total assets; and (ii) total risk exposure. (3)  Article 10(3)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41) provides that data regarding the fee factors will be determined and collected in accordance with a decision of the European Central Bank (ECB) outlining the applicable methodology and procedures. (4)  Pursuant to Article 30 of Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013, for the purpose of the calculation of fee factors supervised groups should, as a rule, exclude assets of subsidiaries located in non-participating Member States and third countries. In accordance with Article 10(3)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41), supervised groups may decide not to exclude such assets for the determination of fee factors. However, the cost of making such a calculation should not exceed the expected reduction in the supervisory fee. (5)  Article 10(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41) states that national competent authorities (NCAs) are to submit data regarding the fee factors to the ECB in accordance with procedures to be established by the ECB. (6)  Article 10(5) of Regulation (EU) No 1163/2014 (ECB/2014/41) states that if a fee debtor fails to provide the fee factors the ECB will determine the fee factors in accordance with procedures to be established by the ECB. (7)  Accordingly, this Decision should lay down the methodology and procedures for the determination and collection of data regarding the fee factors and the calculation of fee factors, including in cases where the fee debtor fails to provide them, as well as procedures for the submission of fee factors by NCAs to the ECB. In particular, the format, frequency and timing of such submission, as well as the types of quality checks that NCAs should perform before submitting fee factors to the ECB, should be specified. (8)  For the calculation of the annual supervisory fees payable in respect of each supervised entity and supervised group, the fee debtors should submit data regarding the fee factors to NCAs based on the templates set out in Annexes I and I to this Decision. (9) It is necessary to set up a procedure to carry out technical amendments to the Annexes to this Decision in an effective manner, provided that such amendments neither change the underlying conceptual framework nor affect the reporting burden. Account should be taken of the views of the Statistics Committee (STC) of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) when following this procedure. NCAs and other ESCB Committees will therefore be able to propose such technical amendments to the Annexes through the STC, () OJL287,29.10.2013,p. 63. () OJL311,31.10.2014, p. 23.